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...Secretary Henry L. Stimson was kinder, but no less firm. "Has my good friend Arthur Krock been sending shivers down your spine?" he asked reporters at his press conference. "There is no plan in the War Department to use military correspondents to replace civilians. There are now more than 230 civilian correspondents in the war theaters and they are doing a splendid...
...those who do get to football games this fall, there should be good wartime diversion. In the East, Fordham, Penn and Boston College should produce spine-tinglers. In the West, the University of California is favored to win the Pacific Coast Conference title for the first time in five years. In the South, all eyes are on the Georgia Bulldogs and Frank Sinkwich, speedy bonecrusher who made 15 All-Americas last year despite a broken jaw. In the Southwest, any one of a half-dozen teams might come out on top, but preseason dope favors Texas University and Texas...
...pulled myself up and looked at the Eagle, 200 yards away. She was lying on her side. Down the great red expanse of her underside, men were sliding into the sea. Suddenly I felt a shock at the base of my spine. I knew it was a depth charge from a destroyer hunting the U-boat." Clinging to the float with other survivors, Thorpe watched the stricken Eagle go. "A rumbling as the sea poured relentlessly into the vessel . . . a flurry of white foam. It subsided and she was gone." A destroyer's crew plucked Thorpe...
...only 5,000 men. Hitch in this logical suggestion is that there is still no way to make sure that the disemployed gold miners would stop off at Butte instead of drifting on to West Coast shipyards. Nor is there as yet any national service law to stiffen the spine of Paul McNutt's War Manpower Commission to the point of freezing labor in strategic jobs. And-Washington being Washington-there is little or no hope of getting such unpopular legislation on the books until after the elections are over...
Saturday's 6-5 victory over the Portsmouth artillery team, with Moe Berg winning his third in a row in extra innings, was an old time spine-tingler. Duckie Drake broke up the ball game in the tenth when, with one away and Jim Gallagher leading off first, he came through with the game's longest blow, a triple over the left fielder's head...