Rolfe urges postwar college baseball World Series plan
Rolfe former Yankee third baseman and coach proposes a national college baseball playoff after the war with a World Series style title game. He envisions regional brackets and postseason play finishing within ten weeks after term end, aided by major leagues and NCAA structures while preserving student status.
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Prize Wheat Grows in Platte Valley From Right Guessing
Leo Lindstrom of Sterling Colorado won the 1943 Pillsbury best wheat award. The feature traces Platte Valley settlement from 1912 homesteading to a 500 to 2,000 acre average farm, and the seed development that led to Tenmargq becoming a regional staple.
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Thermopane Window Promises Major Fuel Savings
Postwar housing could see a 50 percent cut in heat loss with a new built in window insulation called thermopane. Described as revolutionary, the double pane unit seals a dehydrated air space to greatly reduce heat escape and prevent frosting under many conditions. Dr George B Watkins explained the demo at the Architectural League.
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Gay Gadgets and High School Gossip in Our Times
A lively mock column surveys high school gossip and teen fashion from rings and love pins to beanies made from milk bottle caps. It playfully notes trends in romance signaling and humorous craft ideas, reflecting youth culture and social rites.
What to Do By Phyllis Belmont
Visiting for a week suggests a close hostess friend. Gift choice should avoid lavish items to not imply paying for hospitality. Options include personal items like lingerie or perfume or home goods such as an ashtray salad set or silverware, chosen by how well you know the hostess.
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Air Corps Meteorologists Use Weather as Ally
Air Force meteorologists provide daily world wide weather maps for military use. They forecast shifts in storm systems that affect bomber routes and convoy safety, aiming to time flights with cloud cover and favorable winds, turning weather into a weapon.
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The Early Woodpecker Finally Wins Home
GREAT FALLS, MONT. Wilfred the Woodpecker solves the alarm clock shortage by beating a tattoo on the chimney at 6 am each morning. After failed attempts to stop the drumming, the family accepts Wilfred as its morning alarm.
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Invasion Ration for American D Day Beachhead
The 24 hour field ration lists carried by GIs includes compressed meat, two meat cubes, two oatmeal packets, ten crackers, tea, dried milk, salt, three chocolate bars, four sugar cubes, dried fruit candies, two chewing gum packs and a solid alcohol cooking can.
Riddles and Wordplay Puns From A Light Hearted Exchange
A collection of pun questions and answers about ducks scouts gender and wood. The jokes hinge on wordplay with phrases like a box of quackers two kinds of wood and degrees.
Envy or Like How Clothes Shape Class Relationships
The piece contrasts envy and liking in teen social life. It argues that peers envy someone with superior clothes and dating power, while liking comes from sharing and social planning. It frames envy as a path to enmity and liking as friendship.
Into the Sunrise by Les Plettner
The poem follows workers waking to a new day. Reassurance flows from sunrise as they endure bruises and toil. It contrasts factory smoke and farm labor with renewed hope and courage, the day beginning with bright sunshine. The speaker embraces a sturdy start and renewed spirit each morning.
Postwar homes may use large glass areas without higher fuel use
A 14 year study shows glass sandwich insulation allows big glass walls to brighten interiors with natural light while not increasing consumption for heating. Thermopane glazing kept cabinet interior temps near zero at one edge versus a 20 degree spread with a single pane, underscoring the need for insulation to prevent heat loss.
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Betty Cottle Tops Cape Fear Anglers In Morning Catch
Betty Cottle, famed angler and daughter of a game warden, is noted as one of the Cape Fear river’s best. Living in the Holly Ridge deer preserve area of North Carolina, she reports a morning of perch and bream.
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Minute Make Use of V Mask for Victory Skin
Gabrielle provides a brief facial routine using a V Mask. Cleanse with cold cream, pat with skin fresh ener, then spread Vanishing cream. Leave one minute, remove. A light film may remain under powder for a victorious finish.
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Work Is a Great Moral Factor at This Army Base
On Kwajalein Island in the Marshalls the base has no guardhouse. An MP lieutenant says there is too much work to spare men for guards or a guardhouse. A small MP unit polices the area and misbehaving soldiers are assigned extra duties instead.
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Lights of New York revue chatter in Manhattan crowd
Lucius Boomer beams as Mor ton Downey performs on the starlight roof. Imogene Coca and Georgia Gibbs appear in jokes at the Cotillion Room. Maj Bill Klein buys twelve copies of Shoo Shoo Baby for Georgia on cover. Mae West and a Diamond Jim Brady lookalike debate after a show. Jarmila Novotna shows off dance floor hip. Notables Paul Whiteman Toots Schor mingle. Canteen fundraiser sells out at $25, cake donated by Rueben. Photographs capture Niesen, soldiers, and celebrities around town.
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Farmers Use Church Lunch to Cut Trips and Gas
In Dockery Missouri farmers save tires and gasoline by attending both Sunday sessions, sharing a basket dinner at the church between the morning service and the 1:30 p.m. service, then returning for the second service and heading home by 4 p.m.
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