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...Captain Briggs' mother, Mrs. Franz Rosebush. Said she: "Yes, it's true, but I wasn't going to announce it until Ruth said so." Newsweek had also mentioned Mary Churchill and the widowed Duchess of Kent as possible fiancees. Walter Winchell leaped into the fray, reprinted an item from his column of March 20: "Roosevelt intimates still insist the rumors about Elliott's next being Winston Churchill's daughter Mary are unfounded. That he never even met her. The fact is that Elliott's favorite person abroad is a WAC captain." In London, Colonel...
...continual drizzle throughout the game apparently had a very disconcerting effect upon the players of both teams, for the entire fray was marred by errors. Going into the last half of the ninth, Harvard held a one-run lead, but several Crimson errors combined to produce a two-out rally which brought the soldiers back into the ball game...
Down on the soccer field an all-star aggregation of softballers from Co. 1 removed the knickerbockers from the spindly shanks of Co. 2 by the score of 7 to 2. Drexler duelled Kennedy on the mound, with Drexler having the better of the fray by Virtue of his 3 hitter...
Dunster House virtually clinched the civilian intramural softball championship last Tuesday when it defeated Adams in a wild and wooly fray by a score of 20 to 2. This was the Funsters' second victory against Adams, as against one defeat by the Gold Coasters, and, since Lowell House has not showed up for any of its scheduled games yet, Dunster may now be considered to have added the softball championship to its basketball laurels...
Freyberg v. "The Boss" Sirs: In TIME (March 6) you quote Winston Churchill: "General Alexander has probably seen more fighting against the Germans than any living British commander, unless it be General Freyberg, who is also in the fray. . . ." General Freyberg, as you may know, is a New Zealander. Rommel characterized them as the finest fighting men among the Nazis' enemies. . . . Freyberg is from Wellington College, New Zealand. . . . After he became a hero at Gallipoli in 1915, Freyberg returned on special leave to New Zealand. He visited Wellington College to talk to the boys who had come behind...