Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the fact that they left the day after the big V-12 ASTP sports meet last Thursday night, three of the Signal Corps men participated in the event as their last official act at Harvard...
...keeping their minds open in case anyone should mention art." Tony Galento, twice licked by a fighter whose first name was Art, managed after 80 minutes' rehearsal to garble the following prepared opinion: "The perspective is distorted and the subordination of technic to composition is indubitably fatuous." The event was an acknowledged knockout for the editors of Click, who arranged...
Admission to the rally, the gala event of Cambridge's bond buying efforts, is free to purchasers of war bonds at Cambridge booths. Besides the Glee Club concert, the rally will offer a pageant, music by part of the Boston Coast Guard Band, and entertainment by Phil Saltman, radio star. Door prizes consisting of sculptures, paintings, and crafts by Cambridge artists will be given...
Almost two years after the event, Americans learned of the "March of Death" (see p. 12). The public, often accused of complacency, of indifference to the war, once again had been let in late. At the moment the details came out, the Office of War Information, supposedly dedicated to making the news flow, was off in another violent intramural squabble...
...would not be squeamish about suppressing underground resistance. One of the new appointees was Joseph Darnand, a former carpenter who received full power over French police, gendarmerie, secret service, militia, and the private armies of ultra-collaborationists like Marcel Déat and Jacques Doriot. Also, in the event of Puppet Pierre Laval's absence (which, of course, can be arranged at any time), Darnand is automatically to become "acting Chief of Government." Mourning somewhere in the shadows is Marshal Pétain (who had written to Laval that he "declined all personal responsibility for . . . the new Cabinet...