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From Wednesday, the 18th to the 31st, second semester classes will meet, interrupted on June 1 for commencement (it's really only the beginnin' folks), and 14 days' leave to the 14th, when classes will be resumed...
...Preakness was Alsab's 31st race in 15 months, brought his total winnings...
...winter's land and sea disasters cast more dark shadows over the home front last week as Britons struggled gamely through their 31st month of war. In a series of belt-tightening moves...
...Most colorful of the Bataan defenders is the all-American 31st Infantry, under leathery Colonel Charles L. Steel. Of all Colonel Steel's "Foreign Legion characters," the men reserved a top place for 2nd Lieutenant John Flynn, recently commissioned after 33 years of Army service. A sad-eyed Mr. Chips, Flynn delights his men by mixing tobacco juice and contempt for Jap marksmanship on scouting trips into the brush...
...Other particularly able scouts are American Indians in the 31st. One is Corporal Peter Flame, a 200-pound Yuma, Ariz, former football player and champion boxer, who bashfully hangs his head when reporting another sniper potted. Another is tall, lean Joe Longknife from a Montana reservation. On a recent raid he rose up out of tall grass, killed ten Japs with 16 shots, dispersed the rest with hand grenades. When he was a youngster Joe listened to tales of raiding parties told him by his father. Old Longknife, and his grandfather, Old Old Longknife...