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The gratifying hit-splurge was not the only cheering aspect of the fray since Irv Rudman, Sophomore curveballer, showed plenty of tricky stuff, in addition to some control and general mount savvy unusual for a first year man. The fact that the Hub team managed to work the Crimson moundsman...

Author: By Mitchell I. Goodman, | Title: Stahlmen Blast Hub Team 13-5; Rudman Wins on Hill | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

Tricky Campaigner Burton Wheeler, now estivating at his Glacier Park cabin, (thus "necessarily absent" from Senate roll calls), has once before jumped over to the Republican Party to beat an enemy. That was in 1938, when he backed Jakie Thorkelson to oust Representative Jerry O'Connell. Last week Montanans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONTANA: The People's Choice | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

Twenty-three nights had passed since the R.A.F. sent as many planes over a single objective, and the Bremen raid was no proof that the British were yet able to sustain the night-by-night, city-by-city offensive which they had promised. But the fact that the R.A.F. could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: The Long Arm Grows | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

It isn't hard to audit a course at the Harvard Summer Session. Nothing more simple, as a matter of fact. First you go into Boston and have your picture taken by any accredited photographer. It doesn't have to be Bachrach, because the University doesn't want you to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: . . . and Still Bleeding | 7/3/1942 | See Source »

Simple in principle, this process is maddeningly tricky to control. Biggest problems are maintaining: 1) absolute purity of the powder; 2) its even flow to the flame; 3) a constant temperature. For over a year Union's scientists fussed and fretted until a steady output of boules was achieved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Jewels for Battleships | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

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