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Alongside the plane was a tent in which Manhattan District engineers had assembled "The Thing." A mobile crane had hoisted it from the tent to a trench beneath the plane's open bomb bay. Hidden by canvas from all but a superselect few, The Thing was drawn up into the bay. All that could be told about it was that it was big enough to have a foot-high picture of Cinemactress Rita Hayworth pasted on its side. The Thing was called Gilda (after Miss Hayworth's latest movie...
...will be in the form of oral crystal-gazing by members of the University's Administration and Faculty, in an effort to give new students some idea of what their future at Harvard will be like. Provost Buck and Bender head a list of speakers that will include C. Crane Brinton, professor of History, and Chairman of the Society of Fellows, and Richard M. Gummere, Chairman of the Committee on Admission...
...pyramidal concrete blockhouse with 10-ft. walls and a roof 35 ft. thick stood a German V-2 rocket, sleek, 46 ft. tall, bright yellow and black, with a German pin-up girl painted on its side. Its four tail-fins rested on an adjustable platform, and a tall crane held it steady...
About 2 p.m., Mountain Time, the crane was wheeled away, leaving the V-2 naked, a goddess of catastrophe. Then two red flares curved up from the blockhouse. The technicians scuttled down their holes like prairie dogs...
Still in the throes of re-conversion, the History Department filled two of its empty chairs last week by the appointment of Clarence Crane Brinton '19 to the McLean Professorship in Ancient and Modern History, and Frederick Merk, chairman of the Department, as Gurney Professor of History and Political Science...