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Though few U. S. citizens can remember or believe it, tug of war was once the most popular of intercollegiate sports. One who can still feel it in his calves is Malcolm Kenneth Gordon, old St. Paul's boy, now headmaster of Malcolm Gordon School (for boys) at Garrison, N. Y. In last month's Alumni Horae, St. Paul's alumni bulletin, Mr. Gordon (St. Paul's '87) tautly remembered this forgotten sport...
...Frederic A. Delano '85, distinguished as a railroad executive and a military engineer, and at present head of the National Resources Planning Board. Other members are Gilmore D. Clark, Dean of the Cornell University School of Architecture; Alfred Bettman '94, a leader in the Cincinnati regional planning movement; Garrison Norton, secretary...
First Allied troops to encounter these obstacles were a battalion of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and a battalion of Territorials, about 1,500 men in all, sent ahead to relieve the beleaguered Norse garrison down in Hegra fortress. The Nazi naval guns and bombing planes were specially deadly because the Allied advance force had no artillery, no anti-aircraft batteries, no air support, no anti-tank guns. They did not even have white capes for snow-fighting. They were shocked, and shot up, when they met the Germans only three miles below Steinkjer, at Vist...
...Nazi penetration into Sweden was well advanced. In Boden one Friedrich Heinz was found giving "German lessons" to officers and soldiers of the garrison. A Swedish manufacturer exposed a German plan to get detailed drawings of Swedish factories by having manufacturers send them to a German air-raid expert for advice on how to build shelters. German "tourists" swarmed over Sweden, especially around the mining districts. Six "philosophy students" were arrested studying the terrain around the fortress at Boden, strongest in northern Europe. Two German agents were nabbed for espionage at Eskilstuna ("Sheffield of Sweden"), another at the gold-mining...
...physician-in-chief to the garrison at Gotland is a known pro-Nazi...