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...farm in Pall Mall, Tenn., on the 20th anniversary of his Wartime feat (killing 20 German soldiers and capturing 132 singlehanded), Sergeant Alvin Cullom York offered a plan for peace: "I believe if we want to stop Hitler we must knock him off the block...
...vividness and punch Big Blow is another Federal Theatre feat comparable to last season's Haiti. Dealing with the Florida Crackers-blood cousins to Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road poor whites-it paints a frightening picture of ignorance, prejudice, cruelty: the natives' Calibanesque way of life, their hatred of ""furriners"," their venom toward Negroes, their savage Holy Roller hysteria...
...rifleman Henry's wish that Arnold's march be remembered as a stirring feat is realized with the publication of "March to Quebec". The book contains the diaries and journals of officers and common soldiers, including the journal of Henry himself, and the letters of Benedict Arnold which he dispatched during the expedition. There are accounts from members of all four of the division of the army, which followed closely upon each other. Some of the diaries are quite technical, dealing principally with the topography of the land traversed and the nature of river currents, while others are written...
...Atlanta's Charley Yates and whether he could add the U. S. title to the British Amateur title he won last spring; 3) Professional Tennist Ellsworth Vines, onetime U. S. amateur tennis champion, and whether he could reach the final - and thereby duplicate the feat of Mary K. Browne, tennis champion in 1912-13-14, who reached the final of the U. S. women's golf championship...
...ratings of ten goals, the game's highest rank. One of the first ten-goalers was Thomas Hitchcock Sr. (1894, 1900, 1901), who captained the first U. S. team that challenged England for the Westchester Cup. Tommy Jr. has been ranked at ten goals for 16 years-greatest feat in polo history...