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...Race. Rice seldom sets the pace. Neither does Hagg. But after the first lap of the big race, lean Gunder decided to take the lead. A youngster named Wilt spurted past Hagg once, passed him again. But Hagg refused to be annoyed. With effortless ease he glided over the cinders, his fringe of long hair flapping, his voluminous shorts billowing like a spinnaker...
...garrison at Pantelleria, told to "hold the line" by Mussolini, did so with commendable valor, an indication that the universally maligned and notoriously misled Italian troops will not necessarily wilt away before the first invasion troops...
...noble, she keeps on studying with the enthusiasm of a tyro. In Manhattan she arrives every morning at 10:30 at the studio of her trainer, a Svengalian Italian ballet master named Vincenzo Celli. He ruthlessly analyzes her shortcomings, puts her through an hour's workout that would wilt a professional athlete. By noon she is on the Metropolitan stage, dressed in tights and a black velvet tunic, ready for hours of rehearsal. With scarcely time for a cup of tea and a cat nap, she is in her dressing room two hours before curtain time. By the time...
There are new kinds of soybeans with a higher oil content than the old. An improved alfalfa resists wilt. Two brand-new types of red clover can yield a ton more of hay an acre than the old, once-popular ordinary variety that fell into disfavor because it was not winter hardy. A Canadian wild rye, new as a forage crop, promises heavier yields than the common meadow grass. Flax, a minor crop until 1942, is getting a tremendous boost from the introduction of machines to handle it. Hybrid corn, no newcomer in the Middle-west, is being improved...
Whether the Middies will wilt under pressure or whether they will be able to stave it off, as they did against Cornell, only time will tell, and that time is rapidly approaching...