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...possible flare-up of the issue of Faculty control over undergraduate activities was averted, it was learned today, when the Harvard Dramatic Club decided to abandon their fall production of Christopher Morley's "The Trojan Horse" for two shorter plays...
People on the ground heard the plane circling. Some, including two R.A.F. enlisted men, said its engines appeared to be missing. Some said they thought they saw a flare. Lower & lower it circled, barely missed the ground with one wing tip on the last turn. Then it crashed, burst into flames. Three bodies were hurled from the cabin, doused with gasoline. They burned with the rest, too close to the fire to be rescued. Of 20 passengers and crew, few could be identified when the wreckage cooled. Exception was the pilot, who still held a piece of the wheel...
Target is a full, authentic, minute record of an R.A.F. bombing raid on Germany-from the telltale packet of negatives parachuted to English earth by a reconnaissance plane to the last homing bomber groaning down onto the flare-lit runway in the dirty dawn. Its actors are those happy few to whom Britain and the democracies owe so much: the members of the R.A.F. There is not a ham in the cast...
...Manufacture of airplane parts was held up but not stopped by a C.I.O. strike at Air Associates, Inc., in Bendix, N.J., which has $5,000,000 worth of defense-program contracts. It was another flare-up in an old squabble which began last summer. At week's end, after efforts to mediate had failed, the Mediation Board washed its hands of the dispute, left the next move up to the Administration...
...gallons of gasoline in her hold," he explained, "and the Boche channel subs may not want to play cricket with us." That was in Halifax, just before she left dock. One hour and a half before she was to reach Liverpool the man on the bridge spotted a red flare thrown from a fishing sloop. All hands rushed on deck to see what was up. It happened inside of three minutes: a submarine, taking its cue from the flare, dropped its torpedo in a direct line for the British transport...