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Esprit de corps, especially necessary to successful rowing, flourished among the Elephants. In fact, House Master John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, was so impressed by the House crow's zest for the riverboat life that he threw a party for it when it successfully completed its season...
...nearly a year since President Truman had ordered an end to discrimination in the Armed Forces, but with few exceptions, the Negro in uniform still had to eat Jim Crow and live in a second-class world. Prodded again by the White House, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson ordered the Army, Navy & Air Force to tell what they had done to carry out the Commander in Chief's order. Last week the answers were...
Harvard's varsity crow passed its Generals handily Saturday on the Charles by defeating four top Eastern crews and setting a new course record of 8:48.4 in the precess. This leaves the Bolles-tutored outfit with an excellent chance of coming through the Divisionals at Syracuse next week unscarred, and going on to finish out the season with a perfect record...
...carried out diplomatically and efficiently, the policy will help to cure the services of one of their most serious ills. The Jim Crow policy of all the Armed Forces, plus the fact that many Negroes are, through no fault of their own, far below the educational standards for all but the most menial jobs, caused thousands of perfectly capable men to be lumped into miserable duties as stevedores and road-builders...
Tipton's farmers had the relaxed air of men who have plenty of meat in their smokehouses, though they weren't the kind to crow about it. "I don't aim to get caught if anything happens," said Farmer Clarence Horton. Horton, who farms 200 acres on a 50-50 basis with the owner, started from scratch 20 years ago; the last five years have set him firmly on his feet. He now owns two tractors and a combine; his barn and tool sheds are jammed with plows, harrows, seeders. "I have bought everything I am going...