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Note to all midshipmen: Don't worry, boys--if you don't make the lower quartile this term, it's very easy to accomplish it during your junior semester! Tomorrow marks the 70th day before our next leave. That makes Thursday kind of a big holiday. Now we can sing truthfully...
...70th birthday last week, Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King sat down to dinner (oysters and filet mignon) at Ottawa's Chateau Laurier with 40 members of the Parliamentary Press Gallery and their 60 guests. Dinner over, he was presented with a gold card awarding him an Honorary Life Membership in the Press Gallery. Then came the evening's well-kept surprise. A motion was put and carried by a rising vote. The Prime Minister rose, turned to a grey, balding newsman near him at the table...
...savage fight for Walcheren Island, key to Antwerp (TIME, Nov. 13), had an almost comic ending when fussy little Lieut. General Wilhelm Daser, commander of the Wehrmacht's 70th (White Bread) Division, suddenly made up his mind to surrender...
Somehow the night passed without a stampede. Next day the British began moving their prisoners off the island to safe territory. At midday they called for volunteer bakers among the captives, and presently found out how the 70th Division had won its nickname. The bakers at once produced their own white flour, began to turn out excellent white bread. It was one of the privileges granted to the 70th, an outfit made up exclusively of men with ulcers, indigestion and other stomach troubles...
...drawn are scattered. Presidents from McKinley to Franklin Roosevelt, lesser statesmen, tycoons have befriended him, complimented him, collected his originals-which he gives away for the asking, never sells. Though never syndicated, his cartoons have been widely reprinted. Fellow craftsmen dedicated their cartoons to him on his 70th birthday. This year his cartoon "But Where Is the Boat Going?"-showing Congress, the President, McNutt, Hershey, Lewis, Green and Murray at sea in a "manpower" lifeboat, won the Pulitzer Prize...