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Crocodiles & Cannon. This week a new book about Java and all Oceania appears: Australian Paul McGuire's Westward the Course! (Morrow; $3.75). Author McGuire is a professional traveler, lecturer, writer of mystery stories. His book was written before the Jap struck, but Westward the Course! is a timely introduction to the coming Battle for Java...
...Batavia, doves cluster at dusk on the crocodile cages, supple natives bathe in the filthy canals ("They are a very clean people, but they like their water dirty"). An ancient cannon, sacred but now annoyingly useless, stands at Batavia's Amsterdam Gate. The native women pray to it for fertility and have so many babies that Java has 817 people per square mile. According to native superstition, the cannon has a wife at Bantam on the western end of the island. When the two meet, Dutch rule in Java will...
Daniel D. Barker '42, drafted; Nicolas M. Betancourt '45, joined Cuban armed forces; Thomas P. Brooks, Jr. '45, taking airplane mechanics course at Roosevelt Field; Edward A. Callanan, enlisted; Warren M. Cannon '42, taking IA course at Business School; Charles F. Choate '43, enlisted; Robert U. Duggan '44, joined Air Corps...
Buckling down for Winsocki has less appeal than hitting the line for Harvard. At least that's the opinion of a young lady who ought to know. She's Maureen Cannon, sparkling ingenue lead of the Broadway hit, "Best Foot Forward," who thinks that prep school boys, even if they're from Winsocki, are small-time compared to "some of those Harvard...
When asked what she thought of Yale, Miss Cannon was non-committal. "All I know about it," she remarked, "is that when the show was in New Haven we had to take a lot of lines out of the script. Those college boys think everything is burlesque...