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...Students' League, then to Mexico for a year. In World War II he ended up in Saipan as a private, first class, with the U.S. Army Air Forces, painted murals for the enlisted men's clubhouse, and cheesecake figures (at $50 apiece) on the noses of B-29s. But even the Army failed to cure Cloar's wanderlust. Out of uniform, he took off for Mexico and South America, then on to Europe...
...Wives. Sofu's revolution was just beginning to win converts when World War II put an end to such civilized luxuries as flower exhibitions. Sofu kept on practicing his art in private; then the B-29s which knocked out Tokyo demolished the Grass Moon School building. Sofu's postwar comeback owed much to Mrs. Douglas MacArthur, who, Sofu says, "had a good basic understanding of the nature of Japanese flower arrangement." Some 6,000 U.S. occupation-force wives took up Sofu's style; about 400 of them earned the Grass Moon certificate, are qualified to teach...
Reminiscing on Harvard's athletic prowess, Director of Athletics Thomas D. Bolles observed that in '29s heyday, gridiron enthusiasm (in paid admissions) ran about 80 per cent ahead of modern day spirit...
...brief picture of the Houses was provided by Elliott Perkins, Master of Lowell House, who was also an assistant dean during '29s freshman year at College. Noting that the famous Harvard taciturnity remains among today's youth, Perkins observed that, "You can lead two Harvard men together, but you still can't make them talk...
...airmen in the past eight months. Eight wide-ranging U.S. Air Force planes were destroyed by Red gunners ("There was so much flak it looked like confetti," said a Thunder jet pilot). And Communist night fighters, guided by the Reds' accurate radar network, shot down two B-29s, each one carrying eleven crewmen...