Word: britisher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the philosophy of the 19th century British Army pervades Harvard. Lord Kitchener used to say that "we lose every battle but the last." Maybe Harvard plays that way, too, and runs through gallant Balaklava and ineffective Ladysmiths to win all glory in the Yale Game...
...July 8th he was in Palestine. He went directly into action. Chief air opposition came from the Egyjtians flying Italian fighters and British Spitfires, and the single Arab group with a respectable air force. The Israelis flew planes bought through an agreement with the Czech government, procuring Messerschmits which were manufactured at a Scoda plant outside of Prague and flown in bigger planes to Palestine. The Israell also operated several Piper cubs, and increased their air power even further when a group of Beaufighters which were to provide the melodrama in an English movie disappeared from their British field...
...Harvard School of Public Health opens it 1949-50 Public Health Forum series this afternoon with a talk on "The British National Health Service" by Dr. Arthur Leslie Banks, former Principal Medical Officer of Great Britain's Ministry of Public Health...
Died. John Robert Clynes, 80, pioneer in the British Labor Party who rose from millhand to cabinet rank (Lord Privy Seal, 1924; Home Secretary, 1929-31) in his country's first two Labor governments (he was the first to introduce rationing, in 1918); in London. In virtual obscurity by 1947, Clynes was forced to admit publicly that he was almost destitute...
Christopher Columbus (Rank; Universal-International) turns an exciting bit of history into a series of dull tableaux in antiqued color. Even ten-year-olds, at whom this British-made movie is plainly aimed, will find it about as thrilling as an afternoon spent looking at Christmas cards...