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...made clear that they must have Italy as a base against Germany, the Badoglio Government faced an almost impossible situation. How could it keep Italy from becoming a battlefield? The Rome radio complained: "Fascism has fallen. What have [the Allies] offered Italy? . . . The velvet glove over the iron fist of unconditional surrender. . . . Our peace could be nothing but a continuance of war, with us or without us or over...
...Company A of the Army Specialized Training Unit has organized a softball team that will play any and all comers in the University--service or civilian. Company A, which is quartered in McKinlock Hall of Leverett House, has been holding intra-mural games for over two weeks with the Fist Platoon emerging as victor in every contest it has played...
...sudden fist fight touched it off, sent fighting, cursing whites and Negroes battling across the bridge, spilling through the city. Like wildfire, the rioting spread to "Paradise Valley," Detroit's downtown Negro section, washed over Woodward Avenue, Detroit's main street. Gangs of whites and Negroes roved the streets, smashing windows, tipping cars, looting stores, seizing guns and ammunition in pawnshops. Courageously Negro leaders toured the Valley in sound cars. But their pleas for peace were drowned by jeers...
...Stadium, the Blue Sox got off in front with two orderly victories over the Rockford Teachers. Next night, in the second doubleheader, some of the polish wore thin. Despite Helena Rubinstein and Mr. Wrigley, two of the ladies got into a fish wife argument that nearly ended in a fist fight...
...White Plains, N.Y. divorce court, Coast Guard Lieut. Commander Jack Dempsey sat deadpanned and massaged the knuckles of one fist; his wife, full-fashioned, ex-Musicomedienne Hannah Williams, in a beige suit, tan corduroy coat, red gloves, red-heeled shoes and considerable eye shadow, fiddled with her sunglasses and turned various colors. A cook, an elevator boy, a fight manager, a maid took their turns on the witness stand, told stories of parties at redheaded Hannah's apartment...