Word: 1st
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the cleft hot wear the A-L's and the psychologists is firmly established (this column should be and be an inflammatory wedge by the time the psych lads have laboriously spelled their way down this far), let us start stumping for the 1st Platoon softball team, an A-L gang (naturally), and as solid a gang of ten-thumbed ball hawks as ever left three men on base in five consecutive scoreless innings...
After the Harvard intramural program gets going, the 4-platoon Specialists League will select an all-star group to represent our section of Harvard-at-war. Meanwhile, the aforementioned 1st Platoon (also known as the Left Bank Chapter of the Charles River Tombstone Carvers' and Trolley Motormen's Marching and Chowder Association, Especially Marching) is currently leading the Specialists League by virtue of having whaled the blithering daylights out of each of the other three clubs last week...
Sweet essence of vacation! Inter semester leave for the fall becomes a certainly today. Leave begins at the end of the last final exam on September 21, and ends on or about October 1. We hope it's "about" the 1st, since return on that day would mean only one weekend free, and not much time for westward...
Battle for Gela. The enemy was not through. The Rangers and the 1st Division had ahead of them 50 sleepless hours of bombing, tank and artillery attacks, the hardest fight in the experience of that experienced division...
During the first full day ashore, the 1st landed all of its regiments. By morning it had some 40 artillery pieces and 15 antitank guns in position to fire. It had three tanks, but one had lost a tread in the sand. These weapons were not enough for what was to come. Only the bravery of the men and the fire of the warships offshore saved Gela and the landing...