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Soldiers Field resembled a scene from a Hollywood extravaganza yesterday afternoon, as the Varsity football team concluded formal preliminaries for the Yale game to the musical accompaniment of the University band, which serenaded the squad for almost half an hour before the Crimson regulars returned to their Dillon Field House dressing room...
...will be the Hotel Lennox, are due to work out at the Stadium in a secret drill at 1 o'clock today, and the Crimson will follow them into the scene of Saturday's battle for a final brief workout at 3:30 o'clock. After the rally at Dillon, the squad will have its traditional pre-Yale dinner and entertainment at a nearby country club, and return to Cambridge later in the evening...
...flares were lighted outside the field house, and the band continued its serenade until Coach Dick Harlow, last man to leave the field, entered Dillon...
Clothed in complete crimson uniforms for the first time this season, the band will lead a procession from Memorial Hall at 4:20 o'clock Friday afternoon through the Square and over Anderson Bridge to Dillon Field House, where Coach Harlow, Athletic Director William J. Bingham '16, Vern Miller '41, Captain Cleo O'Donnell '43 and members of the team will address the marchers...
...shot board of directors, including William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan and Archibald B. Roosevelt, promoted the project, set about collecting funds (goal: $10 million). Selling the Navy on the idea was easy; Admiral Nimitz is a natural-history fan himself. Last week Dr. Dillon Ripley, Yale zoologist, was on his way to the Memorial's future headquarters at Guam. From there he would island-hop to pick out bases; eventually he would wind up in Tokyo, where he hoped to win General MacArthur's support...