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...south the Germans threw their greatest effort against a little swampy neck of land only four miles wide. They were determined to crack the Perekop Isthmus and overrun the Crimean Peninsula, no matter what the cost...
Near the end of the first half, brilliant Bruce Smith, 200-lb. triple-threat, got off a 78-yd. punt, then threw a 43-yd. forward pass that put Minnesota on Michigan's 5-yd. line. Smith was injured on the next play, but his teammates scored for a 7-to-0 lead that the Wolverines were unable to budge. It was Minnesota's eighth successive victory over Michigan. More impor tant, Minnesota is now in a place where, if it gets by Northwestern this week, it should beat its remaining opponents (Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin), should deserve...
Judge Shinn threw out the most sensational charges: that Consolidated was organized as a fraudulent scheme to sell part of Hearst's property at an excessive price; that Hearst had charged it too much for goods and services from his newsprint and news-feature companies; that Consolidated was forced to pay Hearst's salary (once $500,000 a year) although he spent just as much time in behalf of his private interests; that in general Consolidated had been forced to. pay the freight for the Hearst empire. The court absolved Hearst, his companies and the Consolidated directors...
While other armies were developing new light artillery, Ordnance had been satisfied to dress up the old French 75. In 1940 Ordnance at last conceded that the 75 had too flat a trajectory, threw too light a slug. Ordnance had an able substitute in the 105-mm. howitzer, which it had planned as a supplementary weapon. When the 105-mm. finally became the standard field artillery piece, it meant a revolution in the shell-as well as artillery-production program. The Army is only now getting the first...
...broken on one side, cracked on the other. With his jaws wired, his chin in a sling and his breathing so impaired that he required trips to the sidelines for whiffs of oxygen, Sinkwich played for three quarters of last fortnight's game against Mississippi, threw a pass that tied the score, 14-to-14. Last week, against Columbia, Sinkwich played for nearly 60 minutes, scored the touchdown that licked the Lions, 7-to-3. "He can do everything but bite into a steak," moaned Columbia's .Coach Lou Little, flabbergasted that a cripple had tamed the most...