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These preflight schools, organized two months ago to make U.S. naval aviators the world's toughest fighters, have attracted 600 of the country's ablest athletic coaches and have launched the most intensive three-month sport program ever undertaken in the U.S. In their curriculum, devised and supervised by onetime Annapolis Football Coach Tom Hamilton, are ten compulsory sports: football, basketball, soccer, wrestling, boxing, tumbling, swimming, track, hand-to-hand, engineering (which means ditch-digging, wood-chopping and other manual labor...
...Canal. "Much was made of the announcement that . . . Lieut. General Frank M. Andrews, who is perhaps our ablest exponent of air power, was given 'full responsibility' for the defense of the Panama Canal," writes Colonel Knerr. But "the Navy began trimming his wings. . . . The area around the Windward Islands . . . [ is ] obviously . . . [ an ] area that anyone responsible for the defense of the Canal would like to know is being patrolled most carefully. But General Andrews . . . has no authority to direct the patrolling. [ He ] supplies the heavy bombers . . . but they can't leave the ground . . . until directed...
Holy Cross benched its ablest pitcher, Ernie Ford, and turned to curve-ball specialist Ed Murphy to halt the Crimson last Saturday at Worcester. Murphy not only stopped the Varsity nine cold but shut them out for the first time this year with a decisive 9-0 victory...
...Browne & Nichols' Headmaster Geoffrey Whitney Lewis. Undaunted, the school elected in his place another youngster: 36-year-old Assistant Professor Warren Seyfert of Harvard, which is just next door. A teacher in Harvard's Graduate School of Education, Seyfert is rated one of the faculty's ablest men. He believes that New England preparatory schools are still too hidebound and classical, plans to teach his boys at Browne & Nichols about combustion engines, photography, modern geography, aviation...
...Britain's ablest corporation lawyers, Sir Stafford quit practice in the '305, saying that he was tired of "taking large sums of money from one capitalist to give it to another capitalist." Thereafter he became even better known for his Christianity, vegetarianism (he was nicknamed "Christ and Carrots") and socialism. Before the war he was ejected from the Labor Party for advocating a popular front. Like Winston Churchill, he constantly foretold war, attacked the Munich men. As Ambassador to Russia, he favored a British-Russian coalition against Hitler...