EM EM : monthly magazine - 01.07.1941, Page 14

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í Hopkins and Winant Confer
Harry Hopkins, arriving in New York from Britain, where he served
as President Roosevelt’s personal representative, tells John G. Winant
(left), new ambassador to England, about conditions there. They
conferred in a Manhattan hotel before Hopkins flew on to Washington
to report to the President.
YOU'RE TELLING ME!
--------------By WILLIAM BITT-------------
Central Press Writer
THIS IS about the time of
year when baseball fans in seven
out of eight big league towns
suddenly discover that football is
their favorite game.
! ! !
What must puzzle most foot-
ball coaches is how Uncle Sam
and Canada managed to evolve
that 12-man defense. •
! ! !
A psychologist says we should
set aside a certaln perlod of the
day to do our worrying. Gosh,
now that’s just something else
to worry about.
! ! !
France is to have a standard
shoe, we read. Old Grandpappy
Jenkins is willing to bet it’s heen
especially designed for goose
stepping.
! ! !
Zadok Dumbkopf hopes that
proposal of a union between
England and the United States
goes through so he can hnd out
what a blend of the Oxford and
Harvard accents would sound
like.
! ! !
Itaiians now demand Monte
Cario—news item. Now don’t
teli us that Mussolini, at last,
realiy is going to take a gamble!
! ! !
The United States, statistics
show, now possesses 95 per cent
of the world’s supply of bath-
tubs. That ought to make us a
nation of song birds.
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A U. S. air corps observer in Lon-
don, Major Robert B. Williams was
seriously injured by a German
bomb and may lose the sight of one
eye. He has been observing aerial
tactics in the Battle of Britain for
i_ the past three months.
Heads Red Army
In a shakeup of the Red Arm;
high command, General C. K. Zhu
kov, head of the Kiev military dis
trict, was named chief of the Sovie'
General Staff. General K. A. Ma
retzkov, former chief of staff, wa:
named vice commissar of defensc
in charge of military training.