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...Another thorn in Hitler's side was a series of daring raids neatly executed by the Commandos...
...comedy foundation was solid after he had worked as cameraman on 60 or more Laurel & Hardy and Harry Langdon shorts. One of thorn had an unforgettable sequence: Laurel & Hardy delivering a piano up an impossibly long, steep set of narrow outdoor steps. Says Stevens: "The first theater audience that saw it cheered so hard at the finish that the house had to run the two-reeler over again before the customers would look at the feature...
Charley Erdman, who proved a thorn in the side for the Chasemen all night, tied up the score early in the second stanza, but Steve Glidden converted a pass from Jim Apthorp to reassume the lead for the '45 outfit. Erdman's second goal brought about another deadlock, and Mechem later scored on an assist from Ned Harding for what proved to be the winning tally...
Until he left Shanghai last September, Alcott's daily newscasts over Station XMHA were for four years the sharpest thorn in the side of Axis propagandists. Early marked by Axis gunmen and terrorists, he packed his tough 220 Ib. in a bullet-proof vest, bought a .45 and carried on. During the last two years he observed the handiwork of Tokyo's German advisers in coordinating stations in Manchukuo, Nanking and Shanghai with Tokyo's Government-operated Station JOAK and its Domei News Agency line of talk. Latest and ugliest trend in that talk: that the Japanese...
Hank Mazur, triple threat back, who was a thorn in Harvard's side in last year's 6 to 6 tie, is back again. Only this time he has two excellent backs with him in Ralph Hill and Johnny Hatch...