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They got to saying "rather" and "actually" and succumbed to the English habit of afternoon tea-though without altering their G.I. dinner time, so that 5:30 dinner followed 4 o'clock tea with indecent and indigestible haste. They went punting on the Cam, played rugger with Cantabrigians (and lost), American football (and won), debated in the Cambridge Union Society and acted in the Amateur Dramatic Club...
...River Cam at Cambridge the Americans did badly, but they made history. They made it by picking a girl to cox them for the Lenten bumping races...
Polluted Water. Last week General LeMay also disclosed a six-weeks-old cam paign to strangle Jap shipping by dense aerial mining of her coastal and inland waters. Nineteen missions had been flown ; the Navy had furnished the mines and mine experts. Parachuted into the water at night, the mines are the "magnetic" type; they sink to the bottom and explode when a ship passes close by. LeMay plans to keep the waters "polluted...
...beginning with Campaign Manager Ralph Cake who had done most work for and with Willkie in his 1944 campaign, only one, Albert D. Lasker, was last week in the Roosevelt camp. All the rest were working for Dewey. Senator Joe Ball (see below) had led the rival cam paign for Harold Stassen of Minnesota, whom Willkie disliked even more than he did Tom Dewey...
...Advertising Council last fortnight withdrew its support from Surgeon General Thomas Parran's campaign against venereal disease. The council is a nonprofit organization of advertising men which prepares the publicity and posters for such drives as WAC recruiting and war bonds. It helped the venereal disease cam paign at the request of OWI and the U.S. Public Health Service. It stopped cooperating at the request of conservative groups of Roman Catholics. (Surgeon General Parran is himself a Catholic...