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...Presidential threat to draft 18 and 19-year-olds was taken quite coolly by the childish Lampoon staff, according to the usual unreliable sources from the Bow Corner dive. "Few of our significant members are over 17," Oliver E. Allen '43 (social), unclassified (academic), president, announced last night at a poorly attended press conference...
...possibilities of their attacking Siberia grew dimmer as winter crept like a paralysis over the far North. In their present state of harassment they were no great threat to the North American coastline. They had failed to block communications to Asia: cargo planes bypassed them, flew across the Bering Sea; Alaskan air routes were in operation. Last week the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce revealed that supplies in quantity were being flown from the U.S. to Alaska, thence to Russia and China. U.S. bombers may one day take the same route...
...than a third team at Minnesota." But gloomy Bernie soon discovered that his trainees, though variously tutored, had high possibilities. Besides Michigan's Forest Evashevski, Ohio State's Dick Fisher, Iowa's "Bus" Mertes and Northwestern's George Benson, he was blessed with a triple threat named Bill Schatzer, who had hid his brilliance for four years under a bushel named North Central College in Illinois. In the Seahawks' first two games-against Kansas and Northwestern -Fledgling Schatzer made one-third of the cadets' total yardage, scored three of their 18 touchdowns...
Earlier reports acknowledging a deterioration in the Stalingrad front revealed that a German flank thrust some 100 miles to the south had peneirated the Kahmyk stoppes. It posed the potential threat of a drive against the left wing of the Stalingrad Army or a stab at Astrakhan, at the mouth of the Volga, less than 200 miles distant...
...MacARTHURS'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia--The Allies' first big New Guinea offensive has removed immediate threat of Japanses attack upon Port Moresby, last major base north of Australia, observers believed today, and only supply difficulties have slowed it down after 10 days of steady progress. Australian ground forces have reached the peak areas of the Owen Stanley Mountains near the gap leading across trails to the advanced Japanese base at Kokoda...