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Through an open invitation of the Boston University College of Practical Arts and Letters, Harvard men interested in radio program production, vocationally or vocationally, are enabled to attend a new evening course on this subject, to be given on Monday evenings, from 7 to 9 o'clock, at 27 Garrison Street, Boston. The first class is scheduled for next Monday evening, at which time there will be a general discussion for the benefit of those who wish more information as to the nature of the work to be done...
...them refused to settle down or give up arms. Armed, they cross the boundary to Syria. The French authorities in Syria take away the arms from some of them, then after some consideration they give them back better fighting arms. Now they cross back, charge a small Iraki garrison after pretending surrender to it, cut three lieutenants to pieces while alive, kill 20 soldiers and wound...
Early one morning last week bugles rang out on the sharp mountain air of Innsbruck in the western spur of Austria that is the Austrian Tyrol. Tyrolese in their Lederhosen watched with amazement as the garrison troops marched forth, climbed into buses and rolled off toward Scharnitz on the Bavarian frontier. Off went one regiment of Alpinists, two Viennese infantry regiments, two batteries of mountain artillery and one signal corps company. The good-hearted Tyrolese had heard many a rumor that an army of 8,000 Austrian Nazi exiles had massed on the Bavarian side of the frontier. The rumor...
After capturing the outpost of Dolonnor from a mixed Manchukuo-Japanese garrison, smart Marshal Feng summoned all China to join his "struggle for righteousness." This crucially embarrassed the Chinese Government of wasp-waisted Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek who had made and is striving to keep a precarious peace with Japan. For weeks Chinese patriots sent fighting funds to War Lord Feng, who had fancy arm bands with fighting mottoes expensively stitched on his soldiers' sleeves, then suddenly announced, "I am going into retirement" (TIME, Aug. 14). Last week the Government of slim, shrill Generalissimo Chiang had to send a private...
...were thrown back, once demoralized by bombs from seven Japanese planes. Last week, on the fifth assault, Feng's men made a breach in the walls, swept the Manchukuan and Japanese troops across the city and out the east gate. Japanese, unfamiliar with victorious Chinese, charged the city garrison's general with having sold...