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Last week, in the race for the Governor's Cup, the breeze was so spanking that two of the starters upset before the race was long under way. Winner: Noddy, owned by Oliver Duke of nearby Royal Oak, sailed by Duke Adams of Baltimore...
...assaulting trucks drove right to the swamp. "Smoky Joe's" engineers quickly cut pine and scrub oak trees, in 25 minutes laid a corduroy road across the bog, swept into the astounded 39th (white) Infantry on the Ninth's southern flank. Again the engineers wove through and around the enemy lines, ran some of their truck-tanks clear to the division command post (but caught no generals; they had fled). Before the games ended, in horrid confusion, the 41st was credited with halting the Ninth Division's planned attack for at least a day, perhaps disrupting...
...Oak Park...
...that it had been getting a romantic gilding from the eloquence of Winston Churchill. Military Historian Liddell Hart, whose theories of defensive warfare were blasted by Adolf Hitler's Blitzkrieg tactics, broke his recent silence long enough to remark that the British people's hearts of oak were being betrayed by their leaders' oaken heads...
ILLINOIS: Don W. Crary, Dallas City; Nathan S. Davis, Jr. Winnetka; Merrill M. Gaffney, Winnetka; Willard T. Grubb, Springfield; James E. McNulty, Jr., Oak Park...