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Picking the current champion, Princeton, to repeat this season, they give the Harvard team little chance to improve their 1941 tie for fifth. Coach Floyd Stahl, recognizing the Tigers' threat, also sees them as the squad to beat...
...said the President, the statute of limitations should be revised, so that trust-guilty firms could be punished after the war-the threat of prosecution in any post-war witch hunt would be left hanging over businessmen indefinitely. However businessmen might study this gift horse's teeth, the plain fact was that this was the first gift of any kind to business out of the White House, in many a long year...
...Press. In the House of Commons, following Home Secretary Herbert Morrison's threat last fortnight to suppress the Daily Mirror, the two sides clashed in a full-dress debate over freedom of the press. Despite the recent Cabinet shakeup, the Churchill Government is still more Right than Left. But the press, moving steadily to the Left, week by week has become more outspoken in its criticism of the Government. When Churchill saw that the Government's position was slipping further, he ordered Morrison to crack down. Leftists and countless other Britons had the horrible recollection that suppression...
...quarreling of his 999 other wives. As Solomon strolls in his garden he overhears a butterfly & wife quarreling. The butterfly threatens that if he stamps his foot the palace and garden will vanish in a thunderclap. Solomon, amused, calls up his Djinns, enables the butterfly to make good his threat. In the end Solomon is surprised to discover that clever Queen Balkis engineered the whole thing, to silence the 999 quarreling wives...
...from Rangoon, which he already holds, from western Burma, toward which he is driving-threatens the two great jute ports. Calcutta and Chittagong. Chittagong, on the eastern rim of India's coast, has already been partly evacuated. Even without that immediate threat, the shipping shortage itself has cut into jute supplies. Ships from India must carry even more vital products, such as manganese (three-fifths of the world's production is in India and the U.S.S.R., and Russia is now even more remote than India) and mica (essential for electric insulation, 80% of it comes from India). Every...