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...also did a lot of playing, and the Court of George V did not always ap prove of his playmates. One of his boon companions was Edward, Prince of Wales. Another was the late Douglas Fairbanks. Not until Edward briefly took the throne did Lord and Lady Louis Mountbatten have an unclouded welcome at court. Then, in 1937, he became King Edward's naval aide-de-camp...
...seen German officials, pledged allegiance to Petain, promised not to aid De Gaulle. Last week the aging escapist was reported to have offered to surrender, in return for release of 500,000 Frenchmen imprisoned in Germany. Since Frenchmen are a burden to Germany as prisoners and could be a boon as laborers for Laval, this looked as if it might be a very pretty answer to a very curious affair...
World War II is a boon to the bug armies. The minerals with which man has fought bugs for years-arsenic, copper, lead-are now needed for his war on his own kind. Carbon tetrachloride, ethylene dichloride and chloropicrin are withheld from insecticide manufacturers for the benefit of war materials. The phosphorus paste that used to kill cockroaches now goes into incendiary bombs. A group of six articles on the war against insects, in the current issue of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry, makes these facts plain...
Arthur L. Besse '42, Commodore of the Harvard Yacht Club, terms this government statement as very encouraging, and emphasizes the fact that the accelerated program, with the resulant large Summer School enrollment, will prove a boon to yachting at Harvard...
...Greatest boon to amateur dressmakers are the paper and plastic dress forms, custom-made for each figure, developed in the past five years...