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Generations of Yale Sheffield Scientific School students, inhabitants of what used to be known in New Haven as "Darkest Sheff." had the luck to take their Engish Lit. with Professor Wilbur L. Cross the salty pedagogue who became a four-term Democratic Governor of Connecticut after his academic retirement in 1930. What the Sheff boys ostensibly got was a dose of Chaucer, the usual Shakespeare, and a ponderable amount of reading in the 18th-Century worthies. Henry Fielding and the "lousy parson," the Rev. Laurence Sterne. But what Wilbur Cross really gave the boys was a liberal education...
After a rest in the U.S. (to recover from malaria and dysentery), De Luce covered the Tunisian campaign. In Italy two weeks ago he ran into British General Harold Alexander, whom he had "covered" in Burma's darkest days. Said the General with well-bred surprise: "You [newspaper] chaps get around extraordinarily well...
...September 1940 the Panzers had blitzed Denmark and Norway, the Low Countries and France. Adolf Hitler had capered in delight before the camera. Now he waited to caper again as the Luftwaffe battled across the Channel. In her darkest, grandest hour, Britain stood alone...
Military Millinery. In Darkest Africa, the trend in witch-doctor millinery was to the modern warfare motif...
Despite its homely familiarity, when money goes abroad it cloaks itself in mystery. The present generation has seen this mystery in its darkest phase. It has seen the franc bloat and the mark blow up. It has seen Montagu Norman claw his way up from devaluation to set the pound on gold at the sacred rate of $4.86½. It has seen Hjalmar Schacht counter with moneys designed to fit every purse and purpose. It has listened to the jargon of scores of theories. And it has rightly suspected that all this confusion had much to do with unemployment...