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...centuries experts at checkers had only one series of starting moves, the single-corner opening. Now, thanks to the hatted analysts who have worked at the game in such dedicated spots as Broadway's checker palaces, there are some 49 classified two-man openings, with hundreds of complicated variations. To checkerists, the post mortem of a game is as dear as it is to bridge players...
...professional wrestling has developed a new kind of hokum called Australian Tag. Introduced in the Midwest this winter by Chicago Promoter Fred Kohler-who heard about it from Wrestling Referee Sam Clapham, onetime light-heavyweight champion of Australia-tag wrestling is just the old burlesque doubled. Instead of two-man foolery, each comedian inside the ropes has a partner just outside. When the insider appears to need relief, he can get it by struggling over to the ropes and tagging his partner. According to the rules, only two men are permitted in a ring at one time. But when...
...two-man submarine slipped into Pearl Harbor at 5 a.m. Dec. 7, gathered information for Jap carriers and departed...
M.P.s were not unaware of the danger that, as "chief whip" of the onetime two-man Churchill party (Churchill was the other member), Bracken might crack down on criticism of the present Government. But no previous minister has been as forthright as Bracken in demanding and promising safeguards for a critical press. Said he: "The Ministry does not and will not try to control the press...
Cannon fire from Russian Stormoviks wrecked Nazi tanks. The Russians' massed artillery, their infantry's deadly, two-man anti-tank guns, grenades and Molotov cocktails ripped up German armored columns as they did in last year's battles. But last week there were differences, and the differences favored the Germans. When the Red soldiers found a group of German tanks, they also found German artillery and mortars, bunched to answer the Russian fire. And, in vital sectors, Moscow had to admit that, for all the Red Army's brilliant artillery and anti-tank tactics...