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This was part of Candidate Willkie's long rest before beginning a strenuous campaign. Last week he also visited three rodeos, ate thoroughly at a Cheyenne, Wyo. barbecue, made seven speeches, watched a one-hour parade in his honor in Salt Lake City, met Westerners at short train stops, upped the number of voters who had cheered him on his Western trip...
Farther south, 50,000 troops of the eastern Maginot garrisons fought a fierce but losing fight on the Maiche Plain before retreating across the border into Switzerland. The onrushing German columns, their tanks and trucks beginning to break down after strenuous campaigning, pushed down through Lyon, "Pittsburgh of France," but a segment of fierce French resistance formed west of there at Clermont-Ferrand and with other French remnants from the Belfort district momentarily pocketed the German elements...
Mikkola's Cindermen face a week of strenuous workouts following the Holy Cross meet in order to prepare for the trip to Hanover. Although the Indians have the advantage of better working conditions thus for this spring, one week of good conditioning should enable the Mikkolamen to enter the meet on better than even terms...
...Third candidate was George E. Hary, ex-promoter of a softball game in which the players were (at least temporarily) mounted on goats. Mr. Hary declared he was going to write a story entitled Where Were You, Mr. Schaefer, When?, climaxed a strenuous campaign by renting a hall over a saloon on Saturday night before election, promising to talk until the opening of the polls Tuesday morning. When he ran out of topics, Mr. Hary sang The Little Man Who Wasn't There, which he dedicated to Congressman Schaefer. Still whispering after 52 hours, Candidate Hary slumped down exhausted...
...ailment. Dr. Rock said for there are six or eight cases of it a year at the infirmary. Neither was it caused, as was implied in last night's report, by Brody's working in a steel mill, since many are stricken who have had no connection with such strenuous work...