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...Lloyd Mckim Garrison Poetry Prize of $175 and a silver medal has been awarded to Louis Edward Sissman '48 of Boston and Lowell House, the Faculty announced yesterday. His winning poem was entitled 'Elegy and Reflection...
...presence of the garrison denies the question. . . of governing ourself; if the political situation remains in its present fatal state Germany will never units as a country and a democracy." He says that most Germans lost their sense of justice under Hitler, although there are some who "have not lost its faith." But these, he claims, are lost in the mass of disillusioned Germans. "And the worst thing in the world is the mass. There blooms the despotism...
...four of its five air stations on Oahu. The Air Force was preparing to send its 81st Fighter Wing back to the West Coast, leaving Pearl Harbor's air defense to Hawaii's Air National Guard and its 25 overage F47 Thunderbolts. The Army had cut its garrison forces from 9,000 men to 6,900. By summer, the onetime bastion of the Pacific would be little more than a training base...
...richest deposits of iron ore in all Norway. Saturnine, bespectacled Gotfred Hoelvold sits smugly on Kirkenes. Respected citizens of the village bow politely when they meet Gotfred on the street, and whisper uneasily when he has passed by. Policemen salute him with obsequious care. Even the Norwegian army garrison is obliged to seek out Gotfred for help from time to time...
...Secure." Today the remaining citadels of resident society are held by such doughty widows as Mrs. J. Borden ("Daisy") Harriman, and three other garrison leaders known as "the three Bees." They are a pretty subdued...