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...used so far this year, but not necessarily abandoned by Lamar, is the famous "double shift." Constructed so as to pull opposing linemen offside, although no one would every admit that, it worked to the turn of just 17 offside penalties in the 1942 Penn game. The formation starts with a single wing to the right, but everyone starts moving of a sudden, with the fullback spinning to confuse matters, and pretty soon it is a left formation--with at least three of the opponents offside by them...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, | Title: Harlow System Still Prevails in Lamar-Coached Wartime Team | 10/6/1944 | See Source »

...element of hope in the situation is that its gravity is forcing the Chinese to pull themselves together (see FOREIGN NEWS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Victory Deferred | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

...Germany. He had a chat with British Ambassador Lord Halifax (and made a bet with him-amount undisclosed-on the war's end-date undisclosed). He also did some quick shoring-up of his political defenses, calling in the Governor of Texas and ordering Jimmy Byrnes to pull out all stops on reconversion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conference in the Citadel | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

...violet who belonged to one of the Middies. After begging all night for the band leader to let her sing, she finally "condescended to come up and sing a few numbers" while her partner beamed in ecstasy. It finally took three sax players, the janitor and Charlie Sigety to pull her away from the "mike." Realy, though, she wasn...

Author: By W.m. Cousins and T.x. Cronin, S | Title: The Lucky Bag | 9/15/1944 | See Source »

...Nicholas Horthy listened to the emissary from the north. Then, under his strong hand, a cabinet of Magyar generals took over. Warned the new Premier. Colonel General Vitez Geza Lakatos: "Hungarians! We must defend our own frontiers. . . . We must no longer think, 'You can trust the Germans to pull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Outlook Bad | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

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