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...monickered Hearst Sports Columnist Martene Windsor ("Bill") Corum, 47, will handle pre-game color and post-game roundups. Bill, who talks in a deep Missouri drawl, sticks strictly to sport lingo. A discovery of famed Hearst Columnist Arthur Brisbane, he is well versed in dishing up color, and his syndicated daily sport column is a stand-by to U.S. fans...
...months patients can do many of the things they could do with a real arm. They drive automobiles, write letters. "The sense of touch," the doctors explained, "can be acquired to a remarkably subtle degree. The trained patient can be blindfolded and still recognize with his prosthesis (sawbone lingo for artificial arm) the slightest difference in the size of objects, as well as variation in consistency, and can also gauge the force with which he may wish to grasp an object...
...Lingo has go cards, each containing five sentences in English and Japanese (written in English instead of Japanese characters). Players examine all the cards dealt (not more than three to a player) for a few minutes and try to memorize the Japanese translations. Then each player in turn reads an English sentence from one of his own cards to a player at his left, who wins a card if he answers with a correct translation. Stakes are paid off to the player who wins the most cards...
...with both feet. I'm going to Tokyo with a load of bombs." Doolittle, who once demonstrated a commercial plane with his two broken ankles in plaster casts, is no braggart. Now, having made good, he told Washington newsmen about his deed of derring-doolittle in formal Army lingo...
...tactical divisions, behind-the-lines outfits, housekeeping commands. Last week the cells were in division; the Army was off on another multiplication process. Lieut. General Lesley James McNair announced that he would form 32 more fighting divisions during 1942. General McNair's word was "activation"-military lingo for the birth of a new outfit in all the complex panoply of modern weapons, modern organization. He announced that three new divisions would be activated in March, two in May, three in June and four on the 15th of every month thereafter...