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...professor picked up a pointer, waved it at a world that most of his audience had never seen before. The center of his new map was the North Pole. Tracing future air routes with his pointer, the professor proceeded to teach topsy-turvy geography: Tokyo is nearer to Minneapolis than to San Diego. Chicago is closer to Siberia than to South America...
...goal-line can be discounted . . . The Varsity ran eight running plays, tossed four passes, and worked a double shift inside the Penn 20 . . . Ironically, the team stalled on the two and the three but scored from the 27-yard line . . . George Boston, the Freshman who caught Comeford's six-pointer, made his Varsity debut with his thumb in a cast . . . It will take the movies to reveal how he managed to hold the ball with two defenders on his back...
...high it will go not even Brigadier General Joseph Wilson Byron, head of the Army Exchange Service, could accurately guess. But General Byron, a quiet, easygoing West Pointer who left the service to run his family's leather business after World War I and returned last July, can toy with some intriguing figures...
Hale Frank, 56, is Air Service Command chief, a highly vocal disciplinarian and the only West Pointer in the group besides his boss. "Tooey" Spaatz. "Tony" Frank is a belligerent partisan of air power. Officers left behind in Washington agreed "Tooey Spaatz, like every other officer, has spent 20-odd years picking the staff he would want for a time like this, and now he's got it. And those boys aren't over there for English...
...laid his elaborate groundwork, West Pointer Eisenhower could be well pleased that his top commanders were, like himself, relatively young generals and products of the merit system...