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...first U.S. paratroopers and helped organize the first American airborne divisions. In 1943, in uniform, he slipped through the German lines into Rome and discussed surrender terms with Italian Premier Pietro Badoglio. General Taylor was the first U.S. general to go into Normandy. As commander of the 101st Airborne Division, he jumped in the night before Dday. Later he was wounded, after" the 101st jumped near Eindhoven in the Netherlands. During the Battle of the Bulge his division was rushed up to reinforce the sagging lines and was trapped at Bastogne. At the time, Taylor was back in Washington...
...first two Americans-and the first two Harvard graduates-over to row together on a Cambridge crew will paddle down the Thames River against Oxford in the 101st Cambridge-Oxford Boat Race this Saturday. R. A. G. Monks '54 and P. M. DuBols (Initials are in the grand tradition) have written us a brief account of their adventures with English crew...
...General Maxwell Taylor, 53, appointed chief of the U.S. (and United Nations) Far East Command to replace retiring General John E. Hull. A handsome six-footer, Taylor was wounded once and jumped twice into battle with his 101st Airborne Division in World War II. He was the Eighth Army's last combat commander in Korea, incidentally learned Korean (he also speaks French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese). On a recent flight to Washington, lean-flanked Max Taylor, who believes in constant conditioning, exercised with dumbbells in the plane aisle, read nine Greek plays in translation and a volume...
...Coach Bill McCurdy's Crimson, the finishers were: Al Wills, 37th; Paul Beck, 101st; Don French, 107th; Bill Morris, 112th; Bob Holmes, 113th; and Dick Wharton, 143rd...
...first 100 years are alleged to be the hardest, but the 101st year of Harvard rowing finds the situation about the same as usual a good crew (in this case, Harvard) meets a poorer crew (in this case, Yale) and the result is absolutely impossible to predetermine...