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...foggy night last week a fleet of shiny, grass-green news trucks started careening out of the loading tunnel of the Daily News Building, roared into Chicago's Loop, swerved with loud honking to crash halts at crowded newsstands. "Yo!" yelled the drivers, "the Sun is out!" Fat bundles of papers pitched to the sidewalk, melted like snow on a griddle a few minutes after they were ripped open. Sometimes the newsstand crowd cheered. Chicago was grabbing Vol. 1, No. 1 of Marshall Field's new 2? morning paper, the Tribune-challenging Chicago...
...proud little regimental pennants, crisscross and interweave with the darker Nazi vehicles, each marked with great white crosses. Some get so close that cannons are fired over open sights. Tanks suddenly buckle into twisted masses and leap clear off the ground under the impact of point-blank hits. Shells crash in all directions; friend sometimes hits friend...
Died. Colonel Werner Mölders, 28, German flying ace; in an air crash near Breslau...
...steamed along in a convoy last week, her 65,000 square feet of flight deck glistening under the Mediterranean sun, she seemed unsinkable. Men on the off watch were washing up for tea. Suddenly there was a crash amidships to starboard; all over the ship the lights went out. Every man knew that the Ark's luck-insurance had lapsed. A torpedo had found...
When a befogged, ice-winged airplane crashed into a French mountainside last week, Vichy's wiry little No. 3 man, Minister of War General Charles Huntziger, 61, was burned to death. He was returning from a three-week, 7,500-mile tour of Vichy's North African colonies and, just before the crash, he heaved a full brief case out of the plane to safety. His reports might help Vichy to make up its mind about North African Commander in Chief General Maxime Weygand, whose resistance to Germany's African designs has led to angry Nazi demands...