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Behind 5 to 19 at the half, Milton tried desperately to overcome the Freshman lead. They were successful only in equalling Harvard's fourteen markers scored in the second half, but the early period attack gave the Yardlings the contest...
...seen many of them but last week it recognized the first good one in a long time. Nearly every classic Italian comic opera has a basso buffo, a comic bass. He wears a false nose, false belly, or both, and is not expected to have much of a voice. Fourteen years ago, when Arturo Toscanini conducted Milan's great La Scala opera, he asked one of his young bassos, Salvatore Baccaloni, to specialize in buffo roles, so that La Scala need not rely on rickety-voiced oldsters...
This apparent contradiction was based on the fact that U. S. private shipbuilders and Navy Yards, working three shifts a day, six-seven days a week, were getting along faster than all but the most hopeful had expected. Fourteen destroyers were commissioned or launched between July 1 and Dec. 1. and 17 keels were laid. Construction time of a 1,650-ton destroyer has been cut from 28 to 18 months; by 1943 shipbuilders hope to whittle it to six. Work on battleships, carriers and cruisers is generally ahead of schedule...
...attempted by Chamberlain and Daladier, and they failed. Events since Munich have served only to emphasize the untrustworthiness of Axis diplomacy. Mankind has faced this same problem at other times. The classic example is Napoleon. England signed a peace with him in March, 1802. That peace was formally breached fourteen months later, but it had never been a true peace. It was only a partial truce. Even if Hitler sincerely wanted peace, it is doubtful whether he could maintain it. The German and English attitudes and ways of life are too opposed, at present, to be reconciled for any length...
Harvard's youngest prodigy, Donald Grey Barnhouse, Jr. '44, is making a steady job for himself on the popular quiz program "Ask the Children," Friday night will be the third time this student of fourteen years, four months has taken the air for Harvard...