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Wild Boys. Third son of the fourth Earl of Caledon, Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander was born 52 years ago in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.* The family, Catholics in a predominantly Protestant region, lived in a rambling old stone house surrounded by a forest and park where fallow deer ran wild. Harold's father died when he was a baby, and he and his four brothers ran wild, too, returning to the house mostly for sleep...
...Fallow Years. Having made his great discovery, Dr. Fleming went on to other work. He was engaged in many other experiments-no scientist knows just which of his bottles contains the Nobel Prize. In the history of penicillin there ensued eleven years almost as sterile as the area around the penicillium...
...political future on his reputation as a pinchfist, last week unloosed a new array of figures. Congress has appropriated and authorized $205 billions for war. Of this incomprehensible vastness, about $163 billions have not been spent. At the present spending rate ($4,494,000,000 in July), the fallow $163 billions will take two years to spend. His point: Congress stands to lose control of spending, because the unspent balances amount to blanket appropriations; taking into account taxes, war appropriations and non-defense spending, it is inevitable that the Federal debt will rise from the present $80 billions to more...
...Fields. Expecting increased crops from the Balkans, the Germans learned that peasant stubbornness and guerrilla warfare had cut production by at least one-third. Without fertilizer or tools, with 1,500,000 soldiers still interned in Germany, agricultural France was lying fallow. The winter frost, the scorched-earth policy and lack of tractors had withered the lush wheat crop in the Ukraine...
...Committee claims a membership of 92, 80% undergraduates. The president is Robert W. Williams '42. Eichler is secretary-treasurer, and the executive council includes, besides Eichler, Paul C. Hoover 3G, Kenneth MacDonald 2L, Herbert Schoepke 2L, and James F. Fallow...