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...members of the Crimson starting eleven will be going onto that field for their final game, and they'll be going with but one intention--that of writing a brilliant final chapter to their three years of Varsity football by smashing the Elis and grinding them into the Stadium turf in a manner reminiscent of last year's 28 to 0 victory...
Harlow appears plenty worried about the forthcoming tussle with his former assistant and says that Hank Margarita, Stahley's star runner, and Dan Savage, passer extraordinaire, are two of the best performers of their particular art that have ever seen the Stadium turf this season. They are both 175-pound Sophomores...
...Whirlaway with the long brown tail, Warren Wright's three-year-old darling of the turf: the 49th running of the Lawrence Realization Stakes (a mile and five furlongs); by ten lengths over Hal Price Headley's Alaking, 16 lengths over William Boeing's Time Counts, 24 lengths over William du Font's Fairymant; before 27,000 racing fans; at New York's Belmont Park. It was his 20th victory in 35 starts. The $23,050 prize money upped Whirly's life earnings to $347,661-less than $100,000 short of Seabiscuit...
...aircraft-engine building and all the other Ford production projects. Last week three-quarters of the steelwork on Willow Run's vast plant (275 acres of floor space) was finished. Bricklaying was well under way, and under gaunt girders workmen were installing machinery. Alongside, workmen were inlaying the turf with the seven great runways of a new airport...
Here the islands were little bunkers, the larger units were fortresses which the Russians call "bins." Some were visible, to draw attack in their direction-into traps of other bins camouflaged with turf. Some served as huge underground tank hangars. From each bin, "drains" were dug-trenches to give egress to woods. Camouflaged tractors stood ready to haul off artillery in case of retreat. The bigger bins bristled with antiaircraft, the smaller were draped with nets and foliage to hide them from the air. Into this system the Russians crowded something like 60 divisions. The Germans went after them with...