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...Belden-Stephens chess trophy was retired and became the permanent possession of Harvard when the Crimson quartet checked Columbia, Yale, and Princeton in a vacation competition in New York for the fifth successive year...
Since the team won last year's Ivy League competition, it retains possession of the Belden Stephens Trophy pending a play-off with Yale scheduled for late in March...
...annual Yale-Harvard chess match held in New York December 23 for the Belden-Stevens trophy, resulted in a 2 to 2 tie. Lone victor was Raymond R. Schiff 47. Alan N. Alpern '48, and Marshall N. Rosenbluth of the V-12 tied, while Henry H. Nattens '47, lost...
...books from the fighting fronts appeared steadily; they were generally competent, rarely outstanding. Among the favorites after Ernie Pyle's homespun anthologies; Jack Belden's frank, often bitter Still Time to Die; Target: Germany, the admirable, official story of the Eighth U.S.A.A.F. ; Captain Herbert L. Merillat's detailed report of the battle for Guadalcanal, The Island; Charles Wertenbaker's Invasion! For warmly personal reasons, Mina Curtiss' Letters Home, 254 samples of the billions of letters that U.S. service men have written home since they went to war, became a public favorite...
American G.I.s cannot be compared to Belden's politically impassioned acquaintances in some of the armies of our Allies. There is a difference in fighting for something you have and something you want. Americans are fighting for something we already have, not a new "order" or system. Having it to begin with makes that something more personal than political. Being personal, it is none of Belden's business...