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Wave after wave of Stukas and Junkers-88s came over, hour after hour, day after day. They had fighter protection, but they were careless of losses. Malta's fighters, Hurricanes and Spitfires, tore into the attackers. The anti-aircraft batteries opened up full blast. The guns of navy ships in the harbor joined in. "The thunderous noise," said a London report, "was indescribable...
...there is nothing funny about West Virginia's performance. In the National Invitation Tournament at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden which ended last week, little Hicks whisked in shot after shot from mid-floor, fat Hamilton tore around like a wide-open fire engine setting up plays in rich profusion, Kesling was superb at swooping through and sinking layups, and at tournament's end the assembled coaches voted Baric the most valuable player on any of the eight teams competing...
...game in Manhattan College's minuscule gym, he found the doors locked when he got there and such a crowd outside he couldn't even get to the doors to pound. Filled with a cub's do-or-die spirit, he climbed through a window and tore his pants. That clinched it. Why shouldn't basketball get a better break...
...does not play in the Garden, considering that the game is overemphasized there. Overemphasized or not, they are fine shows that Ned Irish produces. This year, while the finals were being played, a lady in a box narrowly escaped being slugged by her husband because in her excitement she tore handfuls of mink from her mink coat...
Signal. In Opelika, Ala., all the townspeople turned out their lights for a test blackout when the wardens signaled with their whistles. Then a train tore through town, whistled, and all the lights went on again...