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...Major Miley was ready to go back to his outfit from the post hospital where he had been laid up with a fractured shoulder (from jumping with an 80-lb. load of equipment), hoped that he would have his whole outfit qualified as six-jumpers by spring. Trained to pack and maintain their own 'chutes, Benning's jumpers go over the side armed, like the Germans, with pistol and a bag of grenades. The rest of their fighting equipment, from rifles to light mortars and folding bicycles, is dropped separately. By summer the 501st will probably be split...
...both a mystery story and a case history in the perilous science of evidence. Wellington doubts that the crone had an enchanted broomstick. He thinks she was twins. The Lord Mayor and the twelve good men & true were "fuddled, deceived, duped, gulled, hoodwinked and lamentably humbugged by a pack of clever gypsies...
Neither team could develop anything that looked like an efficient attack throughout the entire contest, but in scrapping for and retrieving the orrant pack the Boston team far outshone the Crimson. Once they were in possession of the disk they were about as uncoordinated as the Hoddermen, but the result of last night's game shows that they had it more often...
Ayers put the Crimson out in front by a 3 to 1 count in 13:35 when he scored almost from the blue line on a shot which caught the Terrier net minder off balance. Caleb Loring and Sherm Gray had previously been toying with the pack and were credited with assists...
...British Admiralty remained ominously silent last week about what Germany described as one of the war's fiercest submarine attacks. Hunting in a pack, guided to a big convoy by air reconnaissance, the U-boats were said to have hit and sunk 16, perhaps 18 ships west of Ireland, including a merchant cruiser. With other losses from scattered attacks by bombers and U-boats, this furious assault, would shoot Britain's tonnage loss for the week far above 100,000 - if true...