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...Enemy. As Adolf Hitler's war breathed closer & closer to him, Joseph Stalin must have reviewed with a weary irony his relations with Hitler. When the upstart Hitler came to power in 1933, Joseph Stalin was already steel nine years tempered. He had already begun great projects: rivers to be dammed, factories built, farms collectivized, illiteracy obliterated, men freed-and opposition to be liquidated...
...round Miss Amory shot 76, low score of the day. But after the first round of match play, she was on the sidelines. So was Mrs. Holleran and Defending Champion Betty Jameson, generally considered the ablest of America's golfing sorority, who was put out by a bespectacled upstart named Janet Younker. Two or three rounds later they were joined by Mrs. Leichner, by six-time Champion Glenna Collett Vare, by twice runner-up Maureen Orcutt, by other pre-tournament favorites. By that time the gallery turned its toes toward Betty Hicks Newell, a pint-sized 20-year...
Since Britain is getting around two-thirds of all U.S. military aircraft production (perhaps 1,000 of the 1,476 in June -see p. 32) the upstart Ferrying Command was getting all the priority it needed in men and materials. It also had a go-getting commander who has long had a reputation in the Army flying service for getting what he needs. The Ferrymen's boss, slim, 45-year-old Colonel Robert Olds, who has been flying for the Army since he was commissioned in 1917, today is as fine a big-ship handler as there...
Beetle-browed, 69-year-old Colonel Wedgwood is no fancy-pants. He fought for Britain in the Boer War, in World War I was wounded and won his D.S.O. Like the first Josiah, who got himself well hated for championing the cause of the upstart American colonies, Colonel "Josh" is a fighting progressive. For 35 years (first as Liberal, then as Laborite) he has been a Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme...
Last week, after the field had birled down to the finalists, the survivors were a pair of Bangor Tigers, if ever there were: 28-year-old Joe Connor of Cloquet, Minn., an upstart college boy (University of Minnesota), who at the 1937 championship made the old loggers look like sissies; and 28-year-old Jimmy Herron, boom man for a Longview (Wash.) lumber mill, who was crowned "King of the White Water" at the last championship meet in 1938. Champion Herron, who once doubled for Cinemactor El Brendel in the log-driving scenes in God's Country...