Rolfe urges postwar national college baseball championship plan
RED Rolfe former Yankee third baseman and Yale coach proposes a national college baseball championship after the war a collegiate World Series with sectional finals and a ten day post term playoff. He suggests major leagues assist while keeping players until graduation and sees potential revival of college baseball to its former glory. Also notes widespread high school optimism and the Legion junior program continuing amid wartime constraints.
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Red Rolfe
Yale
Rolfe
American Legion
Big Ten
Midwest
National Football League
Gunner tells of 19000 foot fall in fortress tail
Sgt. James A. Raley of Kentucky survived a 19,000 foot descent when the B 17 disintegrated and toppled into a tree. He was pinned by ammunition but escaped the wreck with a chin cut, recounting the perilous crash during his 13th mission over Europe.
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Gunner
United States
15Th Air Force
Italy
Kentucky
Air Force
James A. Raley
Henderson
Raley
Buttoned dress and jacket pattern set highlighted
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1974 offers a buttoned front dress with yoke collar and bias trim plus a matching jacket for sizes 14 to 46. Pattern No. 1979 covers sizes 12 to 42 with yardage requirements listed. High demand and war conditions slow some orders. The sun-back jumper is noted as a popular wearable item.
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Barbara Bell
Murmansk Opens 24 Hour Flow of Allied Cargoes
Ambassador Harriman reports Murmansk operates nonstop unloading food and war supplies from British and American ships. Convoys arrive as port clears one cargo before the next. Air superiority and new American air and submarine support aid in guarding sea lanes and German nickel shipments from Pet sakmo to the Reich.
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Russia
Murmansk
Moscow
Amb. W. Averell
Harriman
Petsamo
Reich
One-Cell Brain Crack Sparks Divorce for Singer
Maxine Cooper, an orchestra singer, wins a divorce from Charles A. Cooper, a radio engineer, after he insulted her with a "one-cell brain" remark. The Hollywood wife described his temper and noted six prior marriages in her testimony before Judge Daryl M. Sheldon in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
Maxine Cooper
Charles A. Cooper
Sagen
Daryl M. Sheldon
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Richard Crooks
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