People: People, May 5, 1941

Domiciled indomitably in her village in the West Country, Britain's Queen Mary, veteran of bloodier wars than 1941'$, wrote some crisply topical letters to friends in London. Her P.S.: "You've probably noted that in referring to Italians and Germans I use a small g and a small i. I do this because I dislike them so much."

For 19 years oldtime Pitcher Smoky Joe Wood, the Bob Feller of 30 years ago, has been coaching at Yale, home-teaching his own three spratlings the tricks of the game. Last fortnight Yale played Colgate. Pitching for Yale was his biggest boy, Joe Jr., now...

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