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Three Harvard eights will take to the Charles tomorrow afternoon, facing a formidable and a favored M. I. T. combination in their only race this crew season. Despite several encouraging time trails last week, Coach Bert Haines holds out slim hope for a Crimson victory in any of tomorrow's three events...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Crews Will Race Favored Tech Aggregation | 6/2/1944 | See Source »

...Aces. Squadron Leader Bert Houle, of Massey, Ont., commanded the crack City of Windsor Squadron which fought in Malta, the Middle East, Britain. He was best known for getting two Germans in 15 seconds. He "squirted" at one, went underneath it, saw another, "squirted" him too. He wore the D.F.C...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: THE SERVICES: Home Is the Hero | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

Shank of the Evening. In Kankakee, Ill., Police Chief Nelson put Sergeant Bert Luckey on regular duty so that he positively could not attend the annual policeman's ball. Last year the Sergeant's wooden leg broke under the pressure, spilled ball bearings and dancers all over the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 8, 1944 | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

...Orient is Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell's desire that the U.S. public understand his theater's physical barriers and painful supply problem. He called for some professional radiomen. He got Lieut. Finis Farr, writer, late of the MARCH OF TIME and Mr. District Attorney, and Lieut. Bert Parks, ex-CBS-NBC announcer, and a mobile recorder. Lieut. Colonel Paul Jones, onetime Don Lee, Mutual Networker, who had been with Stilwell for two years, was made head of the project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Stilwell's Program | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

...actively annoyed and embarrassed by recurrent Marshall-for-President talk. Last week the Chief of Staff was credited with a quotation rivaling General William Tecumseh Sherman's famous "I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected." The New York Herald Tribune's Bert Andrews reported that "friends" of General Marshall say that if he were "in a position to talk about the topic" he would declare: "I'll be in my grave before I'll be in politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Better the Grave | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

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