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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early in August, the first events of the 1944 "Guadalcanal Decathlon" will get under way at Soldiers Field under the supervision of Jaako Mikkola, Crimson Varsity track coach, it was announced yesterday. This five event affair is open to all civilian, Army, and Navy students at Harvard, and particularly to those men out for track or cross country...
...exhibition was arranged chronologically, classified by wars. The Revolution-"sparsely documented"-produced few paintings. Notable was Emanuel Leutze's study for his famed Washington Crossing the Delaware, probably the best known U.S. historical painting. Leutze painted his monumental Crossing in Düsseldorf, Germany, 74 years after the event, used as models two young U.S. art students...
...Decided not to distribute the medal issued annually on the Vigil of the Feast of SS. Peter and Paul (June 28) to commemorate some notable event of the past papal year. Reason: The medal approved by Pius XII several months ago showed the Pope standing in an attitude of prayer amid the ruins caused by the first U.S. bombing of Rome last July. The old medal will be melted down, a new design drawn. Rumored theme: the Pope depicted as the protector and savior of Rome...
...that event, the official Germans tell one another, the occupied countries of Europe would again fall into despair. The U.S. and Britain would be shaken beyond repair; Roosevelt and Churchill would surely fall. "With its war won anyway," Russia would make its own peace with the Reich...
...Kate's katydidoes were a "sporting event" to some. One man listened in a saloon where book was made on how long she could keep it up. It was "almost hypnotic and compulsive." Said a woman listener: "We never left her that day. We stood by her side. I didn't go out all day, except to go shopping. Even then I was anxious to get back and listen. Of course, my sister was holding down the post in the meantime and could tell me what had happened...