World War II Chronicle

World War II Chronicle: February 4, 1944

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Front page headlines: Henry Cabot Lodge has resigned his Senate seat and is returning to the Army, for good this time… General Erwin Rommel is reportedly leading German troops in Italy… Japanese resistance on Kwajalein withering away… George Fielding Eliot column on the Marshalls campaign on page six…

Sports on page 10. Iowa Pre-Flight football now has a new man leading its football program: Harold “Cookie” Cunningham. The Seahawks lost skipper Lt. Don Faurot last month, as the Navy reassigned the former University of Missouri coach to Monmouth College. Cunningham was All-Big Ten in basketball, All-American in football for Ohio State, then went on to play both professional football and basketball.


Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), 4 February 1944. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1944-02-04/ed-1/

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