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...Leverett House football team yesterday established itself as a potential power by defeating Adams House, last year's champion, 6 to 2. The hard running of captain Stu Dunsker and Charlie Blitz and the line's steady defensive play brought victory to the Bunnies...
...Britain, desperate for trained pilots to stem Hitler's air blitz, set up the first of her three Eagle Squadrons, made up of U.S. volunteers, in 1940. Two years later, with the U.S. in the war, Britain transferred the Eagles wholesale to the A.A.F., was duly compensated for the R.A.F.'s cost of training them...
...Dday. There is the bullet-spitting ex-auto salesman, bucking for general, who comes drunkenly apart at the seams once he gets a briefing on the German fortifications in his attack sector. There are camp followers, goldbricks and, for a touch of sentimental local color from the blitz-days, some village home guards fumbling earnestly with their simulated weapons...
...would now call one of the critical decisions of World War II, refused to permit emergency development of the plane because "the Luftwaffe had disappointed him too often in the past with promises" of new developments. Later, piling blunder on blunder, Hitler ordered the new fighter rigged as a "blitz bomber" against the expected Western invasion. Technically incapable of the task, it never dropped a bomb on the Normandy beachhead...
...cross-country, it is, considered extraordinary if one team sweeps the first five places, but the Crimson ten-place blitz is almost unprecedented in Ivy League competition...