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...March graduates include: George C. Adams '44, of Charlotte, North Carolina and Lowell House; James E. Connor, Jr. '44, of New Haven, Connecticut and Lowell House; Peter Frank '44, of Cambridge; Henry R. Krakauer '44, of Paterson, New Jersey and Adams House; Kurt Lessen, of Cawnpore, India and Lowell House; Cornelius J. Peck '44, V-12, of Iron Mountain, Michigan; and Alan T. Wenzell '44, NROTC, of New York City...
Chaplin's lawyer, slick Jerry Giesler (attorney for Errol Flynn, Alexander Pantages) had a battery of witnesses waiting to testify that Joan Berry was no one-man girl. Judge J. F. T. O'Connor, onetime (1933-38) U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, shooed away this legal red herring as often as it appeared. The prosecutor, Charles H. Carr, argued: "Even if you put a common prostitute on the stand, it would be immaterial as to how many men she might have had affairs with in the past." The only issue was the technical one of Chaplin...
...Penn debaters, George O'Connor and William Ten-Cate, both juniors, were entertained before and after the contest by the members of the Harvard Debating Council. The judges were Dr. Wm. Sutcliffe, instructor in English, Mr. George D. Strayer, Director of the Boston School Survey, and Mr. James E. Allen, Jr., Administrative Secretary to the Faculty of Education...
When Italy surrendered last September, three high British officers were glumly killing time in a prisoner-of-war camp near Florence. Air Marshal Owen Tudor Boyd had been captured late in 1940, when his transport was forced down in Sicily. Lieut. Generals Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor and Philip Neame, V.C., had been crudely kidnapped by a Nazi motorcycle patrol which stumbled across them in a stalled truck convoy near Derna, Libya, on a spring night...
General O'Connor's capture was a particularly bitter blow; he was field commander of the North African Army and General Wavell's right-hand man. When next heard of, Air Marshal Boyd was commanding the camp carpentry shop, Generals O'Connor and Neame the chicken yard. In the wild confusion of Italy's debacle they escaped, vanished into the Italian countryside. This week London announced that they had reached the Allied lines. They were together through the long trek; their route was secret...