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...figuring out where the Bismarck would head for was just educated guesswork. Later it became known that there had been a hot argument aboard her. Captain Lindemann wanted to return to Germany; iron-willed Fleet Admiral Günther Lütjens, senior officer on board, ordered a westward dash. Systematically the Admiralty planted every available cruiser and destroyer across likely lines of escape. At 10:30 a.m. on May 26, the Bismarck was spotted by a Catalina patrol plane southwest of Ireland. This time Sir John Tovey's own flagship, King George V, backed up by the battleship...
This was the only score for Harvard until long after the game was lost. Captain Bob Forsyth got the second after a long dash up the field from his defense position and Wilbur Davis scored the last at the very end against the Green second team...
...impression be created that the freshmen are weak in the dash and hurdle events. The most consistent winner of all the Crimson runners, is flect sprinter Dick Weiskopf. A second in the 220 in the opening meet of the season is all that mars his record of firsts in the 100 and 220 in every contest this spring. Charlie Durakis has never taken lower than a second in either the high or the low hurdles...
...Crimson's second double winner was Pat McCormick, who took firsts in both the 220 low and 120 high hurdles. His wins were matched, however, by Car Parsons of BC, who won both the 100 and 220 yard dash events...
Chiefly, this is the story of how spare, fox-faced Martinet Montgomery chased Desert Fox Rommel's famed Afrika Korps 1,850 miles, from the gates of Alexandria into Tunisia. In his writing, as in battle, Monty has neither Eisenhower's scope nor Patton's dash and saltiness. Readers who want the smell and smoke of battle will not get it here. But El Alamein should appeal to chess players. Every move of every battle is explained with the logic, the patience and the bland assurance of an instructor demonstrating a foolproof system. Writes Monty: "I have...