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H.M.S. Flame, 18-gun brig, lies hove to near the French coast. "Insolent rascals, mutinous dogs," splutters the First Lord of the Admiralty, nursing his gout in Whitehall. Flame's crew have just sent word to London that they are tired of floggings and bad food. Unless their demands are met, they will desert to Napoleon...
Among the speakers at the Cambridge Centennial dinner, Wednesday evening at the Hotel Commander, were President Conant, Gen. Courtney H. Hodges, former First Army commander, and Marine Corps Congressional Medal of Honor winner Brig.-Gen. Merritt A. Edson...
Five Overseers, to serve six years, are Edward B. Krumbhaar '04, Philadelphia, professor of Pathology at the University of Pennsylvania; Brig. Gen. Hanford MacNider '11, Mason City, Ia., former Assistant Secretary of War and former U. S. Minister to Canada; Henry W. Clark '23, Juneau, Alaska, of the Alaska Development Board; Lawrence Coolidge '27, Hamilton, Mass., member of the law firm of Gaston, Snow, Rice & Boyd; and William G. Saltonstall '28, Exeter, N. H., newly-named principal of Phillips Exeter Academy. The sixth Overseer, Rev. Charles W. Gilkey '03, Chicago, associate dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School, will...
...three brothers died in uniform. Flyer Quentin was killed in World War I; Major Kermit died in Alaska in 1943; Brig. General Theodore Jr., in Normandy...
...elevator fell overboard. Angry Dixie flushed brick-red at the blot on the Ti's record. When a destroyer picked up the sailor and returned him, Dixie got on the loud speaker again: "If anyone wants to see that smart young fellow, you can find him in the brig on bread and water." But Dixie softened up and let the man out for Christmas...