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Philadelphia's Haverford College has "strained its Quaker traditions of absolute pacifism," admitted President Felix Morley last week, and agreed to become part of the Army's nationwide chain of "little West Points." Young Army privates, 18 to 21, will take preliminary scientific training for commissions as meteorologists in the Army Air Forces at Haverford, will live and drill in uniform on its pacific campus...
Other groups will have to break a prodigious record if they win more decorations than the 19th. Over 1,000 medals have been awarded to the living and the dead of the 19th. Major Felix M. Hardison wears the D.S.C., Purple Heart, D.F.C. and Silver Star with three Oak Leaf Clusters. More than 50 men of the 19th have won the D.S.C., including the late Captain John L. DuFrane. who flew missions seven straight days before he was killed in the Celebes. The 19th's own candidate for the Medal of Honor is Captain Harl Pease of Plymouth...
When it comes to being obnoxious, he's overshadowed by everyone else in the cast. First of all, there's Sterling Holloway. Holloway looks, acts, and grovels like a local vice-president of the Cretin's Union, who models strait-jackets in his spare time. After him comes Felix Bressart, who is probably a nice fellow to his own friends, but then who wants to bother with those missing links? Bressart, lovable chap that he is, divides his time between kicking Holloway around and trying to marry his own daughter off to the local herring czar...
...Dakar's Governor Pierre Boisson prepared to evacuate European (mostly French) women and children. (Dakar's military commander, General Paul Felix Barrau, was in Algiers burying his wife and son, who were killed in a French plane crash last fortnight...
This new technique has permitted the MARCH OF TIME to bring you the voices of some of our TIME & LIFE correspondents like Hart Preston (in Ankara), Harry Zinder (in Cairo), Steve Laird (in London), Holland McCombs (in Rio), Bob Sherrod and Teddy White (in Australia), Felix Belair (in Washington) and 14 others who spoke from all sorts of unexpected places. And several times our editors (like Military Expert Roy Alexander, or Foreign News Editor Wilder Hobson) have gone on the air as news commentators to give you their expert judgment on some important development...