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...guns in the Chrysler M3, for instance), the British found that fire power is the first requirement of a tank-eating tank. Their own tanks, whose primary armament consists of the two-pounder gun (approximately the same as the 37-mm. cannon), were no match for German tanks carrying thirteen-pounders (roughly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BATTLE OF THE DESERT: Dust in the Cogs | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

...Thirteen men's and women's colleges will compete in a tournament to decide the Intercollegiate Bridge Championship of Greater Boston on December...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tourney To Decide Boston Collegiate Bridge Champs | 12/2/1941 | See Source »

...impressive percentile of .559 was compiled by Harvard's five fall sport teams in the recently concluded autumn season. Only one squad failed to maintain a .500 average. Nineteen wins, thirteen losses, and five ties comprised the total...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Crimson Fall Teams Compile .559 Percentile | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...reminiscing Welshman's boyhood self (Huw Morgan) is played on the screen by a thirteen-year-old English boy named Roddy McDowall,* veteran of some 20 British films. His part-the wondrous day-by-day experiences that slowly make a boy a man-had to be played right to make the picture go. Thanks to his own considerable talent and the wise direction of John Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 24, 1941 | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

With the New Yorker already entrenched as the contemporary theatre's most prolific source of material for successful comedy, behold "Junior Miss," starring Sally Benson's Graves family, and most particularly their thirteen-year-old Judy. Uncle Max Gordon has picked another winner this time, for here is the most continually rollicking play of the Boston season--"laff-riot" being the term which springs to mind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/12/1941 | See Source »

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