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...noon, a 30-man mob assembled in the reformatory yard. A stout rope was thrown over a low-hanging limb. James Scales, taut with fear, was dragged atop an empty oil drum. Suddenly Superintendent Neil, in the immemorial gesture of all Southern peace officers, shouted: "I don't want anything like that done here." Then he ducked. As the shotguns blasted, James Scales fell, his head and back studded with lead...
Packers and Giants. Although they were more concerned about the forthcoming home-and-home, do-or-die series with Washington, the New York Giants took time out last week to spill the high-riding Packers, 24-to-0. From mediocre material, stout (270 Ib.) Steve Owen, the Giants coach, has produced a first-rate defensive club-which leads the league in pass interceptions with 26. For the Green Bay game, he gave Halfback-Rookie Howie Livingston the unenviable job of minding Don Hutson, the alltime greatest pass receiver. The rookie did a job on Hutson, intercepted two passes, allowed Hutson...
...decks littered with crumpled men and running with blood. One turned away with a splintered superstructure, with no one visible aboard except a single officer on the bridge. But the craft that were not hit bored on for the shore, throwing their rockets and small-caliber shells at the stout German casemates. A few LCTs sailed right through the breaches previously blown in the dikes by the R.A.F., before launching their amphibious vehicles...
...found there was no reason for friction - at least, not any more. Chester Nimitz flew down to New Guinea; he and MacArthur conferred. While the Navy struck across the Pacific, through the Gilberts and Marshalls, past Truk and into the Marianas and western Carolines, MacArthur's men got stout naval support...
...Stout Defense. Allied military sources credited the Nazis with 40 full-strength divisions-about 600,000 men-stretched along the 500-mile front from Switzerland to the North Sea. Eisenhower's men outnumbered them at least threefold, perhaps fivefold. Moreover, fewer than half the German units were first-class troops. Many of those holding fixed positions in the West Wall were barrel-scrapings : convalescents, striplings, oldsters, men with stomach trouble, ear trouble, eye trouble-even chronic alcoholics...