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Next Friday will see three field events on the card: the hammer throw, at 2 o'clock, the discus at 2:30 and the javeling at 3 Saturday finds twelve other events listed: the high hurdles. 100-yard dash, mile run 440, low hurdles (120 yards), 220, SSO, two mile run, pele vault, high jump, shot put (16 pounds). and broad jump, Saturday's time schedule will be printed in the next week's SERVICE NEWS...
...most, the German fleet in Norway consists of the 35,000-ton battleship Tirpitz, sister of the Bismarck, which was destroyed on its long dash out of Bergen two years ago; the 26,000-ton Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, repaired after their successful run through the Channel last year; the pocket battleships Admiral Scheer and Lützow; two 10,000-ton cruisers of the Hipper class; and perhaps ten destroyers...
...Freshmen. One day last November, three weeks after the Allied landing on the coast, a group of sweating U.S. tankmen halted their 750-mile dash from Oran, near the crest of a hill overlooking Tunis. The prize was twelve miles away. They had paused for orders from the officer commanding the shoestring force of British infantry behind them. As they waited, two German fighter planes swooped over the hills and strafed the British infantry, whose commander had belatedly decided to wait for air support. The support never came in time. Rushing German strength stopped the Allied dash...
...dull gallery walls were aflame with pictures of orange and crimson plazas in Valparaiso and Santiago. Luis Herrera Guevara, a Chilean "primitive" painter of great splash & dash, was having his first U.S. exhibition, in Manhattan. He showed sailing boats in a topsy-turvy port, ornate buildings with leaning façades, a bus looking like an enlarged caterpillar, a self-portrait revealing a jaundiced gentleman with jet hair. Critics were enchanted. They could not fail to make comparisons with the pigmental innocence and charm of France's late, great "primitive" Henri "Douanier" Rousseau...
...Cliff Downer followed closely in the same event in a brilliant sweep which put the Crimson well out in the lead. Substantial scores had already been piled up by Jack Hunter and Eddie Smith by their action in the hurdles, plus the swift stepping of Moe Young in the dash...