Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sole remaining civilian formal of the winter season will be the dance at Lowell House tomorrow evening. By a vote of Adams House the Gold Coasters' affair of Saturday, January 27, became an informal. Though the Adams event is open to everyone, the dance tomorrow has been restricted to Lowell men and their dates...
...during the Atlantic crossing, Gimpel and Colepaugh wore naval uniforms in the event of possible capture, changed to civilian clothes with U.S. labels at the last moment. The U-boat, which ran seven miles up the Bay from the Atlantic, surfaced 300 yards from shore, cloaked by snow and darkness, and two of her sailors paddled the spies ashore in a rubber boat...
...Great Event. At week's end, the big show was unfolding. By enemy report, no less than 70 Allied warships had penetrated into Lingayen Gulf, were laying their guns on coast defenses as far south as San Fabian (see map). Third Fleet carrier planes supplied close air support. The Japanese description of the scene was nothing if not vivid: "The whole area of Lingayen Gulf is detonating with the fiercest bombardment ... by the enemy surface units as well as the large carrier-borne plane bombings. . . . Superheavy guns mounted in the fortresses of San Fernando, Bauang, Damortis and other places...
...Guard; Warner). This two-reel Coast Guard film lacks the sustained high cinematic level and intensity of the best U.S. war films. But it contains scenes which show D-day in a tragic splendor which no other film has caught so well. The best of these shots give the event something of its scope and meaning against the.even greater scope and meaning of nature, for they catch (in color) the conclave of great ships and the deadly surge shoreward of landing craft under fire, among the all but unbelievable lights and tints of a sea daybreak...
...personal visit of the head to a class will be an annual event, accompanied by all the ceremonial of a present-time speech day. A tube railway will be needed to connect its sixth-form rooms with the nearest university. The marvelous efficiency of such a school will shriek to high heaven and yet-right glad am I to think that a beneficent providence has ensured that I shall not be called upon to act as the smallest cog in its gargantuan machinery...