Word: 1st
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first issue distributed in Japan was August 27 with General MacArthur on the cover. And copies of the next issue (Sept. 3) were being printed within sight of the moated Imperial Palace in Tokyo four days after the 1st Cavalry Division entered the southern outskirts of the city...
...headed for the Pacific, the 6th Marine Division boasted enough football talent to line up three all-star teams. Now, on the way back, the 6th would be hard-pressed to muster one full team. Some of those lost on Okinawa: Killed-Wisconsin's 1942 All-America end, 1st Lieut. Dave Schreiner; Purdue's 1943 All-America fullback (and leading Big Ten scorer), Corporal Tony Butkovich; Notre Dame's 1942 captain and end, 1st Lieut. George Murphy...
Until August 1st the U.S. Army bought 50,000,000 prophylactics a month. Nonetheless, as it has at the end of all wars, the venereal-disease rate among troops is rising both overseas and at home...
...Lord Vansittart who wrote, but he was quoting not himself but Velleius Paterculus, a 1st-Century Roman historian. He added similar testimony from Tacitus, Seneca, Symmachus, Claudian, Nazarius, Ammianus Marcellinus, Ennodius, Quintilian and Josephus. This battery of authorities punctuates Vansittart's latest book on Germany: Bones of Contention (Knopf; $2.75), which was published in Britain last March and appears in the U.S. this week...
...Navy Receiving Sta. (Fargo Bldg.) 5 13 May 23 Squantum N.A.S 1 9 May 26 At Exeter 8 12 June 9 Army Base Enlisted Men (POE) 3 0 31 50 Won 2 Lost 4 CREW A Time Distance April 28 U.S. Naval Acad. and M.I.T. 1 3/4 1st U.S. Naval Acad. 10:07 2nd Harvard 10:13 3rd M.I.T 10:14 May 5 M.I.T. and Cornell 1 3/4 1st M.I.T. 9:17.5 2nd Cornell 9:20 3rd Harvard 9:25 CREW B Time Distance April 28 U.S. Naval Acad. JV & M.I.T. JV 1 3/4 1st U.S. Naval Acad...