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...sharpest rise in attendance (60.2% over last year) has been in the southwest. There a riotous Randolph Field service team led by an ex-All America from Virginia, Lieut. Bill Dudley, has hammered Rice 59-to-0, Texas 42-to-6, Southern Methodist 41-to-0 and two service teams for an average of 45.6 points per game against 1.2 for the opposition. Last week Dudley & Co., with ex-high-school coach Lieut. Frank Tritico directing, swamped the North Texas Aggies...
...book goes next to "Glavlit"-the Central Administration on Literary and Publishing Matters of the Central Committee of the Party. This, in effect, has in its hands the guidance of all cultural and ideological writings. Stalin has said: "The printed word is the sharpest and most powerful weapon of the Communist Party." After censorship the book goes back to the publishing house and is published, when the editor is ready to sign...
...citizens are now too busy and too prosperous for suicide, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. reported. During 1943, U.S. suicides dropped from the average 19,000 of pre-Pearl Harbor years to a mere 13,000. Sharpest decline in the urge to self-destruction (a 35% drop) was among insured women in the 20-to-25 age group...
...last week's mid-season recess, few of these efforts toward superiority had availed. The American League clubs, with the St. Louis Browns leading, were bunched as closely as piglets at feeding time, showing the sharpest competition in history. And below the leading St. Louis Cardinals, there was almost as much competition in the National League. One team and one player had especially good sporting value to offer in baseball's Ersatz Epoch...
Internationally minded Senator Joe Ball of Minnesota complained of its "rubber words"; New Jersey's Willkieite Governor Walter E. Edge demanded it be made much stronger-meaning more internationalist. The sharpest criticism came from ex-Candidate Wendell Willkie. He compared the foreign-policy plank to the one on which Warren Harding ran in 1920: "The Republicans won the election of 1920. A Republican President, claiming that he in no way repudiated the Party's platform, immediately after the election announced that the League of Nations was dead. A Republican President elected under the proposed platform of 1944 could...