Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alumni accustomed to the Harvard Crimson will find in that paper's war-baby a publication dedicated to serving both the civilians and service personnel that make up Harvard at war. Begun, in February, 1943, with the purpose of supplying news only to servicemen, the Service News took over a dual assignment when the Crimson suspended publication for the duration...
...Poet, Too. As "Pop," he went off to Hamilton, Mass., to spend the night with his family. But the triumphal tour had just begun. Next day, after an eleven-and-a-half-hour plane flight, he arrived in Denver. Happily profane, he rattled off a stream of characteristic Pattonisms. Sample: he classed himself a "better poet than general." As his plane rolled into its takeoff, Los Angeles bound, he found his hotel key in his pocket, chucked it out, yelling to those on the ground to return...
...that their forces had seeped across North China, from the Yellow River to the Shantung Peninsula and down the coast. Though they had been poorly armed in the past (they even used wooden cannon-see cut-which they actually fired from), they now seemed better armed. They had already begun a surreptitious investment of Shanghai, China's biggest city and biggest port, near the mouth of the Yangtze River, control of which carries with it control of most of southern China...
...have begun at opposite ends but the goal is the same - human happiness. We ought to meet somewhere . . . and find that each faces the other's light." Asiatics, concludes Editor Arthur E. Christy, understand the secret of human happiness somewhat better than the U.S. corporation which recently advertised: "Buddha, who was born a prince, gave up his name, succession, and heritage to attain serenity. But we do not need to give up the world; we have only to see a life-insurance agent...
...Just to help out in hard places, such as impersonating a great floorshow star when you know nothing in words of less than nine syllables, Buzzy's ghost demonstrates that he can enter and take charge of Edwin, body & soul. Complications develop, thanks to Miss Mayo, who has begun to interest Edwin even more than the smell of bindings, and to Pelican-partner Vera-Ellen who, he learns, expects to marry him-as Buzzy-next afternoon. To make matters worse Buzzy's ghost, floored by a hangover, defaults during a crucial interview with the D.A. At last, hounded...