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Company C threw a monkey wrench into the Intramural basketball competition by defeating Lowell Wednesday afternoon to produce another three-way deadlock for the winning spot of the winter's first tournament. While Company C, Companies F-G, and the Bellboys face a play-off in the last throes of one intramural series, the second tournament has already begun...
...expect in their husbands' country. Welcome to War Brides, issued by the Wartime Information Board and the Department of National Defense, contains everything from geography lessons to shopping hints, and a glossary explaining, for example, that in Canada a joint is a roast, a spanner is a wrench, and corn is wheat. Typical advice...
Hardly had Prime Minister Winston Churchill zoomed back from Moscow to announce that the question of Poland and the Balkans would vex Anglo-Russian relations no more, than those relations suffered a new wrench.* This time it came in Iran-traditionally a prospective Russian Lebensraum, traditionally a very tender spot with Britons. For Iran lies like a massive wedge between British India and British-controlled Iraq. It is also the source of much of Britain's Near Eastern...
Star Time (produced by Paul Small) is a creaky vaudeville coupé kept moving only because Lou Holtz, a tireless master of ceremonies, is between the shafts. There is one big-time act: the gracefully dancing De Marcos. Otherwise, harmonica players wrench the eardrums, songbirds ravish the mike, top-hatted Benny Fields suggests a crooner in a cinemusical about the early...
...must be gradually reduced in size whenever any part of it no longer serves a military purpose. Any prolonging of war contracts is a hindrance to speedy reconversion. At the war's end the whole obstacle must be bodily removed as quickly as possible, even though this will wrench loose a sensitive and complicated network hooking together the Government with more than 17,000 direct suppliers and some 70,000 indirect producers. Dr. Kaplan recommends swift and persistent surgery, that war contracts be cut out as rapidly as possible in the time that remains...