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...Tail-End Charley" (last plane of a flight) caught this picture of flaming Ploesti during the U.S. raid on the Rumanian oil center which supplies vital fuel to Germany (TIME, Aug. 9). Delayed-action bombs had not yet exploded when the camera clicked, but incendiaries had started a network of fires. The U.S. Liberators dropped 300 tons of high explosive and thousands of incendiaries from as low as 100 ft. Planes flew through sheets of flame, emerged covered with soot, while gunners dueled with rooftop anti-aircraft and saw people waving from the streets. Losses were high...
Playing number three will be Wally McDonald, followed by Tom Baker, Dudley Palmer, George Clay, John Zinsser, Freshman Dave Shepard, and Cort Parker. The tail-end spot is still very much up in the air, according to Barnaby, who said last night that he would not be surprised to see a second Freshman playing on the Varsity for the coming two matches...
...tail-end games of the 1942 House football season were played yesterday, neither game being of much consequence in the final standings of the League. Winthrop foiled Kirkland 6-0, and the Lowell eleven rose to win its second game of the year from a fast-fading Adams team...
Since last fall the Dodgers have acquired: 1) Fireball Pitcher Kirby Higbe, who won 14 games for the tail-end Phillies' last year; 2) onetime Cardinal Mickey Owen, a Grade A catcher; 3) onetime Pirate Paul Waner, seasoned outfielder; 3) Second Baseman Alex Kampouris, who led the International League in home runs last year. Besides, they have mighty Joe Medwick, the slugger whom Boss Larry MacPhail bought for $132,500 last summer, only to have him beaned and made ball-shy for the rest of the season. This spring, comforted by a bean-proof plastic headguard which all Dodgers...
...last week the star-stuffed Chicago Bears had already acquired a corner on this year's crop of All-Americans. By prearranged deals with the tail-end Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers, the Bears got the dickering rights to Michigan's Tom Harmon (the Eagles' first choice) and Stanford's Norman Standlee (the Steelers' first choice), in addition to their own selections: Ohio State's Don Scott and Boston College's Charley O'Rourke...