Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elliott Perkins '23, director of the War Service Bureau, said that he was "still puzzling about it." In the event that Congress enacts the service draft proposal into law, Perkins feels that his War Service Office may well be able to act as an advisory body in the placement of 4Fs in industry. He remarked that "no matter how hard you study, you aren't going to affect...
...chairmen of the class council; Bob "500" Grinaker as secretary; Phill Masquelette as our tight-fisted treasurer; and Bernie Bienvenu and Ed Rinetti as co-chairmen of the SAC (Social Activities Committee) which promises to be active in the near future, especially around March 1. The other main event listed. for the council's consideration is the class year book (you know, we're scheduled to graduate in October 194x) so perhaps we'll get some work out of our duly elected officers yet. Not to slight the men of importance in high ranking circles, we must also note that...
...this desperate push Rundstedt threw away the rule book. There were reports that hundreds of U.S. prisoners were stripped and shot for their clothing and identification tags. In any event the leading elements of the German columns were in many cases American jeeps loaded with German troops in U.S. uniforms and equipment complete to dog tags. German tanks and trucks were marked with American stars. The deception was highly successful and forced U.S. Military Police to make time-consuming checks of all vehicles using the roads in northern France and Belgium. American slang and American lore became the one sure...
Harvard's newly-formed all V-12 boxing team will encounter a Williams outfit on the top floor of the Indoor Athletic Building Saturday at 1500 in the first pugilistic event of the year, Coach Henry N. Lamar said yesterday...
Teacher Nurnberg has sent copies of his book to Winston Churchill, Major George Fielding Eliot and George V. Denny Jr., moderator of Town Meeting of the Air. Speaking in Parliament, Churchill had said: "Everyone can have their opinion about that." Major Eliot had mentioned the possibility of "some climatic event-probably a full-scaled Allied offensive." Denny, trying to clear up an ambiguity, had carefully spelled out for a member of his audience the word "its"-with an apostrophe. Then he innocently added: "Young lady, note the importance of grammar...