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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Institute for Geographical Exploration the Harvard Spanish Club will present "La Noche De "Los Mayas," a full length Mexican motion picture with English subtitles. The film deals with primitive Mayan life and culture. Produced in 1941 and starring Arturo de Cordoba, it twice won the Mexican Academy Award and was favorably received in New York. This is the first time it has been presented in Boston and if the experiment is a success the Spanish Club will continue to make top-notch productions available to the Harvard audience...
...Russia, millions serve in home-guard units for air-raid defense. Numberless women joined the Partisans during the Nazi occupation. The Government has decorated 4,575 women for valor on the battlefield. Six women have won the Government's highest award...
...Another award awaits serious, hardworking General Holcomb: the Distinguished Service Medal, already authorized by the House and awaiting only Senate action. Another job also awaits General Holcomb, but that is still the Navy's well-kept secret. Best guess to date: a place among the Allied Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...England states. They came to Harvard from 58 colleges. Twenty-five of the 131 men graduated with honors. In addition, Jack P. Shillingford, of Potters Bar, Hertfordshire. England, and John M. Stowers of London, England, who studied at Harvard under special Rockefeller Foundation grants, completed their studies with the award of Rockefeller certificates...
...linotype machine and an operator, upped his paper's size from four to six pages, turned out job printing for Whitehorse's few stores. On the side he published a quarterly for Canada's Anglican Yukon Diocese. One year he won a Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association award for the best paper under 500 circulation. Best of all, he did all this in an easy five-day week...