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...week of frustration for many: ¶After gathering farmers for miles around to watch a demonstration of his fire-extinguishing bomb, an enterprising salesman set it up in a tobacco barn near Dillon, S.C., gleefully built a fire of hay and leaves beneath it, then waited for it to put out the fire. It didn't-at least not before the spectators had to run out. And after that the barn burned down. ¶Mrs. Janice Pollock, who was chosen as Mrs. America of 1946 but turned down the honor (and a chance to make $2,500) to stay...
...Arms and the Girl" opens, a cannonball crashes through the back wall of a barn, lands on the stage, and rolls directly toward an alarmed audience. The new Theatre Guild musical comedy is aimed at a target just as broad--the old New England custom of bundling--and it scores a hit almost as solid as the one by the cannonball...
...good scare was Army. In Philadelphia's Franklin Field, desperate Pennsylvania switched to a two-platoon system for the first time and made 23 first downs to Army's ten. But Army, an old hand at two-platooning, squeaked by, 14-13. Hay in the Barn. Apart from the big four, the only team of any stature left that was still unbeaten was Virginia. In 192-lb. Johnny Papit, Virginia had a powerful, swivel-hipped fullback who was as good as they come (his coach rates him better than the great Bill Dudley, Virginia's wonder...
...asks his scouts three short questions: "How can we win? Where can we gain? What must we stop?" While assistant coaches are drumming the answers into California's well-organized platoons, Chief Organizer Waldorf paces to & fro overseeing the whole production. "By Friday, the hay is in the barn," he says, "We can't play the game for them...
True, high altitude bombers sent against warships "have their limitations. They can seldom see a target on the ground clearly, except by radar." And with "ordinary bombs which fly many miles horizontally as they drop they cannot hit the side of a barn-they cannot even hit a small city with any assurance . . . [But] the guided bomb alters this whole situation ... A great ship alone on the sea is a clear target to radar and a clear target for a guided bomb." Therefore, unless some effective seagoing defense against airborne attack comes along, "the days of the large fighting ships...