Word: cunningham
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...promotion over 20 senior officers bears out the tradition that Britain's frigate captains of one war make her fighting admirals in the next. His latest post was in the Mediterranean as No. 2 to Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, whose recent exploits have been strong tonic to Prime Minister Churchill and the entire nation. The Dakar fiasco, after which Mr. Churchill mentioned "accidents and some errors . . . disciplinary action," afforded excuse for a high command shakeup and it was wholly probable that Sir Charles Forbes took the rap for his underlings...
Yesterday, Bill Cunningham, sports seer of the Boston Post, using levy-League football as a spring board, took a flying swan dive into a deeper problem. His query: "What's happened to youth?" His answer: they've lost "not only physical energy but ... moral courage." As representative of the current younger-generation-is-going-to-the-dogs school of thought, that answer is a challenge...
...Cunningham comes of a generation which in its youth saw issues clearly. Things were right,--or things were wrong. With a self-assurance born of pioneer optimism, they made their decisions and acted on them. In 1917 they made one of their self-assured decisions. England was right. Germany was wrong. War was glorious, like San Juan Hill. So America went...
...Bill Cunningham of the Post: "I pick Harvard by a 21 to 7 count over Army. The Harvard have a pretty good ball club. Spreyer and Lee should stand out today. Army is a poorly coached squad which was slaughtered by Cornell last week. Mazur should look good for the Cadets...
Yale has reached a crossroad, and has chosen to travel the path of de-emphasis. Inevitably Harvard will have to declare its hand and follow Yale's example, though Bill Cunningham had no statement to make last night. Announcement of a revolutionary change in Harvard athletic policy can be expected within the next few days...