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When a track coach loses a potential national intercollegiate champion through premature war service graduation, and still gets eight hours sleep a night, it is time to examine the rest of his team. Varsity mentor Jaakko Mikkola will miss javelin thrower Dave Murray this spring. He will have other headaches too, trying to strengthen the sprint department. But overbalancing these defects is the apparent overall depth of the team. The Varsity squad which emerged from Briggs Cage two weeks ago is virtually the same one which grabbed fourth place in the indoor IC4A meet earlier this month and which throttled...
...Felton, Varsity weight-thrower, took second place Saturday afternoon in the 35-pound throw at the annual West Point relays. He was the only Crimson representative at the meet...
...Warmongers. It showed a fire truck driven by a cigar-smoking Churchill. The other firemen were Hearst, Baruch (with a bucketful of atom bombs), Franco, a Turk and a Greek. Said a poem accompanying the cartoon: "Although this crew carries a fire hose, it's really a flame thrower...
Miss Maxwell, the world's most publicized party-thrower, tried to put on a big Opera Ball in Chicago. Chicagoans were not charmed by a Maxwell column, six weeks before the date, which remarked: "It is hard to persuade these rather timid, frightened Chicagoans to come as Rigolettos and Carmens, but I think they will see the light. . . ." Tickets went unsold at $50 a couple, then went unsold at $25. The project was sunk without a trace. Miss Maxwell's last words: "For some curious reason, which is quite inexplicable to me, apparently the public did not want...
Then along came a lot of big war contracts-and a man named Ernest Murphy. He was tough and bejowled, just like Diamond Jim, but he was no party-thrower. The hard-working Mr. Murphy shook the dust and defeatism out of Pressed Steel, gave it a new kind of flash. Result: last week, after nearly half a century of making nothing but freight cars, Pressed Steel sparkled with plans to invade the home-appliance field. The first shiny electric ranges were rolling off the production lines in its Chicago plant...