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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adolf Hitler's Armies slogged toward Moscow last week (see p. 17), Representative Warren Magnuson of Seattle, Wash, was thinking about Alaska. Mr. Magnuson's thoughts were not as far-fetched as they may have seemed. They were based on the following strategic and geographic facts: 1) if Hitler beats Russia, he gets the Trans-Siberian Railway; 2) whoever has the Trans-Siberian Railway controls Siberia; 3) Siberia is little more than a Cyclopean stone's throw from Alaska...
...King Peter II of Yugoslavia, 17, reached London safely, prepared to establish his Government-in-Exile there. << John L Lewis Jr. graduated from not-so-laborite Princeton. The labor leader brought his cigar along and watched. << George Weyerhaeuser, famed kidnap victim of 1935, now 15, graduated from a Tacoma, Wash, junior high school. << Joseph P. Kennedy's second-youngest daughter, Patricia, 17, was chosen to bottle-whack the S.S. President Polk, last of the American President Lines' new series of combination freight-and-passenger vessels...
...banker, Julian Gerard; but the judge doubted any gold would be found, and did not award Gerard any interest in his protégé's three-million-dollar desert castle. >> Historian Harry Elmer Barnes was dropped as a lecturer by Eastern Washington College of Education (Cheney, Wash.) because "during his early years Dr. Barnes was associated with certain movements commonly called radical." >> Alabama's Governor Frank Dixon and wife got out and thumbed a while when their car broke down in.the country; hitchhiked 20 miles on a truck. >> Katharine Cornell, member of Actors Equity...
Harvard's 1941 crew may well the best eight in the country but no one will ever have a chance to learn for sure if it is. The Crimson record of leaving every opponent somewhere in the wash of the shell is undisputably perfect so far as it goes, but Harvard can make no sure claims even to a mythical championship so long as there are undefeated boats in the country against which the Crimson 0arsmen haven't raced...
Escapists. In Brooklyn, Angel Hernandez climbed the 200-foot tower of Manhattan Bridge, lay down and stayed. "I just wanted a little peace and quiet," he told police. At Fort Lewis, Wash., Private Kenneth Wilkinson saw his 245th feature-length movie since his enlistment last October. His explanation: "They make me forget my troubles...