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Arriving at Harvard as a captain from the 11th Cavairy Division, Shannon was first an assistant professor, and was in command of the unit only from June until August, when he was promoted and went overseas. During that time, however, he took a major part in shaping the future policies of the baby regiment...
...Department announced formation of four new armored divisions, making 14 in all. Of these, the 11th is already formed, the 12th is forming, 13th and 14th* will soon get under way. (The 7th and 11th will compose the new Third Armored Corps under Major General Willis D. Crittenberger at Camp Polk...
Frustration. Reviewing the political, military and strategic aspects of World War II's third anniversary, the Communist Party newspaper Pravda said: "There must be no fourth anniversary." In the wake of Winston Churchill's flying visit there had been no assurance of a second front. Recalling June 11th's Russo-British-U.S. communiqués* after the London and Washington conferences, the Russians felt that a second front had been promised for 1942. Where the people a month ago asked "when," they now wondered...
Waldstein and Harrison each pitched seven-hit ball for the regulation distance, but starting in the 10th the effects began to tell on their hurling, and both bullpens opened shop. Floyd Stahl had Berg on hand to rush in when his powerful southpaw faltered in the 11th, but Smoky Joe Wood had no choice but to keep his starter in, since Nevell, his No. 2 mounds-man, had gone the route against Holy Cross on Wednesday...
...tall spare figures of saints and Virgins, mournful of mien, with inclining haloed heads and slim-fingered hands. These paintings represented the oldest and most continuous art tradition of Europe-a tradition whose source was Byzantium ("icon" is from the Greek eikon, "image"). Icon painters of the 11th to 17th Centuries, "humble and mild and pious" (as a 16th Century Church Council enjoined them to be), painted as reverently as they prayed, "remembering the work of the earlier painters, following the best models." Only in the last dozen years have Westerners appreciated the splendor of Holy Russia's painting...