Word: cannoneer
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...Harvard graduates in the new committee include: Edwin C. Bennett '18, W. De Ford Bigelow '00, George H. Blakeslee '02, Charles C. Cabot '22, Henry B. Cabot, Jr. '17, Philip Cabot '94, Waltr B. Cannon '96, A. Barr Comstock '07, Lawrence Coolidge '27, William A. Coolidge '24, Courtenay Croocker '01, Charles K. Cummings '93, Lawrence B. Cummings '02, Robert H. Davison...
Mostly Miscellaneous Things: Even ardent musician unionisis had to suppress grins when Local 77, Philadelphia, demanded and held tryouts for a musician to fire a cannon during the Tschalkovsky "Overture 1812" . . . New York scribes are listing Lester Young's solos (Count Basie) as being by "Jack Hoak" . . . Orchids to Red Nichols for the clever stunt of mailing all the record critics in the country five pennies separately with an announcement of more to come and then a nickel painted red with publicity about Red Nichoin and the Five Pennies...
...Fleet air arm. Coastal Command of the Royal Air Force, and anti-aircraft batteries would have to protect Britain's naval bases as best they could. Last week's preliminary Nazi bombings in Essex and Yorkshire were possibly to test and spot these defenses. German coastal cannon planted at Calais, Cap Gris Nez. Boulogne might aid in trying to reduce the British bases. Britain's coastal batteries have long range but are old. Heavy units of the Royal Navy, scarcely daring to contest invading forces in the narrow straits area, would probably withdraw to stations...
Sikorsky thinks a helicopter could be used in the Air Corps for carrying messages, getting in and out of garden patches, roads, backyards. Armed with a cannon it could be used for defense of battleships, ground establishments, would have a good chance of protecting itself against pursuit planes by stopping dead in the air, backing, hopping straight up to higher altitudes to get out of machine-gun fire...
...third of China's undergraduates rallied in the hills of North China and organized a guerrilla army, as China fought for its life, the Chinese Government calmly laid plans for China's future. Of coolie cannon fodder it had a plenty, but in all China there were only a few hundred mechanics, a few dozen engineers, few doctors, few scientists. The hope of China's survival lay in such trained men. In that first summer of the war, China's Education Ministry secretly sent students to Tientsin, Peking, other university centres, through them transmitted instructions...