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Opening day was so hot (104°) that three contestants stripped to the waist in the middle of the round. But hotter than the weather was blond, sun-bronzed Jimmy Clark, a 20-year-old aircraft worker from Long Beach, Calif. He shuffled around Spokane's hilly, pine-fringed Indian Canyon golf course in 64 strokes, seven under par. Next day he shot 71 for a qualifying total...
...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...
...north it was the same. The Finns were not fighting their summer war as crisply as they had their winter war. They sighed when they heard that around Hanko, which the Russians leased after the winter war, the Reds' phosphorous shells were burning out the pine woods where the Finns had loved to play on vacations. They shrugged when they heard that British funds given generously during the winter war were being used to help the Nazis; that an orphanage built by British gifts now billeted Nazi soldiers...
...still abuilding. On the right were dozens of pearl-grey barracks with colonial facades, long mess halls and groundschool buildings; on the left, mammoth hangars skirting the vast bare landing field. Now, just six months later, the arid newness is gone. Grass grows beside the streets, palm and pine spot the once dusty table land. The 200 cadets who stream in each month from the odds & ends of civilian life see a brisk hustle of officers and trainees in their khaki service uniforms or bright whites. That first look shows them that they have come into...
Sponsored by the State Board of Health, the privies are built with WPA labor. In most cases, the owner provides land and materials-pine lumber, concrete for floor and pit, corrugated iron for the roof. Total cost: $34, divided equally between material and labor...