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...shift from Bradley's to Hodges' command was made in mid-battle, without the grating of a gear. The battle plan for the Saint-LÔ breakout was Bradley's, but from there on the tactical decisions were up to Hodges. When Hodges took over, the First had two complicated plans to work out : 1 ) to slug in and carve a corridor for Patton's tanks to slip through, then hold the German counterattacks and keep the corridor open; 2) using its own armor, to swing a right hook to form the first trap...
...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...
Watching the fray from the sidelines were halfbacks Glenn Schultz, brilliant Freshman from St. Louis, benched with an injured foot, and Marvin "Bill" Jenkins, who is temporarily ineligible. Their combined absence necessitated Garrity's shift to the wingback position. Still in sick bay was right end Rod Perkins, whose shoes were well filled another veteran of last year's team, was a draw, as each man averaged approximately 38 yards per kick...
Detonator. On Sept. 6 Superintendent Johnson had ordered children who were attending public schools outside their own districts to shift back at once. The decree, he explained, was intended to restore the city's numerically unbalanced classrooms to equilibrium. Parents retorted that to send their children to the appointed schools often meant sending them farther from home than before. Some 10,000 families sabotaged his plan by organizing mass hookey. Indignation meetings sent delegations buzzing to Johnson from all sections of the city. When his back doorstep was blown up, he had been ducking an Illinois Superior Court subpoena...
...this job was called, in governmental gobbledygook. Predetermination of Contract Cancellation. That jawbreaker meant something quite simple: war contractors can now pretend that their contracts have actually been canceled. Thus they can clear out of the way much of the time-eating labor that would hold up a swift shift to making peace goods...