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Brown University's heavy football team will invade Harvard tomorrow to do mock battle with Coach Henry Lamar's light and still green eleven. The scrimmage game will be played at Soldiers Field following the Navy V-12 Unit drill...
Tomorrow's game, which will start after the Navy drill, is the result of universal dissatisfaction with the last game. The British, playing under a no-substitution rule, were piqued because of the numerous Harvard substitutions, while the Crimson men felt that they could have won in ten more minutes, and petitioned Coach Jack MacDonald for a replay...
Another practice game is on the books for this Saturday afternoon, with Brown coming up from Providence to provide the opposition. The scrimmage will be held on Soldiers Field after the V-12 drill, at about 3:45 o'clock...
Unlike the civilians and sailors, the soldiers will have no option as to when and where they will take calisthenics, but will be assigned by the Army to the various classes. Some of the men will drill in Army fatigue clothes, while the majority will be permitted to wear any gym outfit they choose...
...Priestley's novel is not about the factory or the mechanical miracles which materialize in planes. It is about the people who make the planes-their lives, thoughts and hopes. With adroit skill he takes the reader about the plant, from office to assembly line, from drill press to canteen, relating a life history here, sketching a vignette there, until some 50 faces have become recognizable people and the novel's main motifs are weaving the mild suspense which makes Priestley so easy to read...