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Last week's "hybrid" was a development of the piloted torpedo of Pola. Reports indicated that the war head exploded harmlessly at the harbor entrance. The attack therefore failed. But it served notice on the British that their superiority in the Mediterranean will be challenged not by the wide-open sea battle every British manjack wants, but by Italian ingenuity...
...Gardella at the tailback spot in the place of Sophomore Don McNicol, ruled out of the Michigan game with a leg many. Joe has had previous Varsity experience at tailback and should be able to make the switch without much trouble. This move leaves the fullback position a wide-open scrap between Bill Brown and Mort Waldstein...
This week Mexico had an election. The nation took it seriously; deadpanned the act, as if it really were enjoying all the blessings of democratic free choice, instead of a wide-open affair of pistoleros and cheats. As a matter of fact, it looked early in the week as if the election might come closer to democracy than anything Mexico ever had. There was the usual Government-sponsored, in-the-bag candidate. But there were also three other candidates, and one of them, though he had not a paisano's prayer of winning, nevertheless was conceded a chance...
Chairman John D. M. Hamilton has the job of opening the first wide-open Republican convention since...
...items: stories or articles, mainly second-rate, by the late D. H. Lawrence and Thome Smith, by John Dos Passes, Erskine Caldwell, Theodore Dreiser, John Steinbeck, Westbrook Pegler; The Snows of Kilimanjaro, one of the most ambitious and psychologically the most painful of Hemingway's stories; a wide-open Ring Lardner razz of wrestling ("Come on, Alexis; take me. Anything but a toehold."); Helen Brown Norden's famous Latins Are Lousy Lovers-which is less interesting in itself than in its unintended suggestion that American women are lousy...