Coaches Cite Football Fitness Boost Amid War Effort
Curly Lambeau leads a chorus of coaches noting football players have tightened discipline and shed excess weight as they prepare for war service. They say this fitness push signals a national shift from comfortable living to readiness, stressing stamina, sacrifice, and team spirit.
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William Tecumseh Sherman
Curly Lambeau
Green Bay Packers
Curly
Lambeau
Durance
Major League MVP Talks Stir Strong in National League
Western Newspaper Union previews MVP races in both leagues. Brooklyn fields top candidates like Pete Reiser Peewee Reese Joe Medwick Whitlow Wyatt and Larry French while Enos Slaughter and Claude Passeau also figure. In the American League Joe DiMaggio Ted Williams Joe Gordon and pitchers Bonham Hughson receive votes as writers debate rounds and honors.
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Brooklyn
Flatbush
Pete Reiser
Peewee Reese
Joe Medwick
Whitlow Wyatt
Larry French
Brook Lyn
Mort Cooper
Enos Slaughter
Claude Passeau
Cubs
Giants
Reiser
Slaughter
Enos
Pistol Pete
Medwick
Ott
Johnny Mize
Dolph Camilli
Dodger
Dolph
Joe DiMaggio
Ted Williams
Joe
Williams
Joe Gordon
Ernie Bonham
Yankees
Tex Hughson
Red Sox
Dogs of War Drafts K 9 Corps for U S Army
The army seeks two hundred dogs to form the nucleus of a larger canine corps to guard depots and stations alongside human sentries. Dalmatian Dobermann Afghan and shepherd breeds are preferred with Dogs for Defense Inc recruiting. Photos taken at Ft Hancock New Jersey show early training of drafted dogs.
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Sam
Dogs For Defense, Inc
Ft. Hancock, N. J
Nina’s Choice Between Love and Family Demands
Kathleen Norris counsels Nina, 28, torn between marriage to a physician and aiding a frail mother and siblings. With debt and caregiving looming, Norris urges Nina to marry now and seek privacy, arguing doctors’ wives find stability and home life grants happiness and calmer years ahead.
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Nina
Lee Nina
Lee
BAD COMPANY AND LOST OPPORTUNITIES
Kathleen Norris writes to young girls and mothers about unfulfilled ambitions and regrets. The piece urges readers to avoid missed chances and to value achievement, referencing a girl engaged for six years as a focal point for her message.
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Kathleen Norris
Curtain stripes from worn sheets inspire room color flow
The article describes making curtains from long pieces of good material from worn sheet pairs. It explains dyeing them soft and clear, adding gingham and bias trim to form stripes, with a chart of colors, widths, and spacing. It advises joining short foundation lengths with right-side seams and layering contrasting stripes for effect.
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Grantland Rice
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Welkin
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Golden Bears
Dom DiMaggio
Boston Red Sox
New York
New York Yankees
Babe Ruth
Lefty Grove
Rube Walberg
George Earnshaw
Athletics
Chicago Cubs
Dogs of War
Russia
Germany
France
Hans
Bell Syndicate
WNN Features
By Kathleen Norris
Bessy
State Normal College
Trousseau
Ikhome
el Steers
Spears
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford Hills
J. Fuller
By Jerry Link
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Cutter Black Legol
Pepe A
Ri Brera de
Eedi Bey
Salt Lake
Boise
Pocatello
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