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...sensed a new reason for the slowness of the Italian campaign: their fight might be a gigantic diversion, a holding attack designed to keep as many Germans as possible engaged there while other invasions are devised and mounted. It appeared that the center of strategic gravity was beginning to shift to Western Europe...
...ragged. A railroad has been laid, but there are no busses or streetcars. In the spring and fall "it is no pleasant matter for the Workers to make their way home through the welling mud." But the vast factory hums with work, and thousands pass through its gates each shift. The buildings are camouflaged, for when they were built the foe was still within raiding radius...
...major item in a minor Cabinet shift. Into Woolton's vacated place went handsome, plodding Colonel John Jestyn Llewellin, resident Minister in Washington in charge of supply. His Washington post will be taken by rugged "Big Ben" Smith, 64, ex-sailor, ex-dockworker, ex-organizer of Ernest Bevin's Transport and General Workers' Union. Ernest Brown, criticized for lack of imagination particularly in housing matters, was replaced as Minister of Health by hardworking Conservative Henry U. Willink, a King's Counsel who thus rose to Cabinet rank after only three years in Parliament. Brown moved into...
Henry showed his devotion to Harlow by his actions on the double shift controversy. Worried about Dick's being called "crooked" be some sports-writers and fans, the good-natured Southerner showed that the formation actually aids a play by warning Tufts before using it against them last Saturday...
...thing the B. C. Hoar'd better play with someone Morro her type. I don't Know if we Campbell the double shift this time and get away with it but the game will be the McCoy or I'll Boachetti in the face for making me go to the game," the old Sage added with a Burke, but before he litted another tankard he leaned over to Asnavourian if the socre wouldn't be Harvard 14 Boston College...