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There may be a host of objections to sending the Harvard and Yale rowers to the Regatta, particularly with the national emergency and the budget cuts filling the lives of the H.A.A. and the Y.A.A. with gloom. But if they could get out of their heads the notion that the New London race is the be-all and the end-all of crewdom, the difficulties could be overcome...
...Varsity on Wednesday, and even coming close to the Jayvees. But newly-elected Captain Chace was not to avenge the earlier defeat when the Yardlings went the mile and three-quarters last Saturday against M. I. T. The Techmen won handily, leaving Harvard second place. A lot of the gloom conjured up by the two losses was dispelled when comparison of the times revealed that Tech's Freshman wonder-crew had beaten the time of its own Varsity, and was "just plain good," as the Yardlings...
...took Germany exactly three weeks to conquer Yugoslavia and Greece. To most of Britain, Australia and the U.S., that seemed a matter for profound gloom. But although the campaign had been lost, there were indications that after details of the Battle of Greece became known, the Greek campaign might possibly go down in history as one of the most brilliant tactical operations of British Empire arms. Although Hitler's men have not yet been stopped, this battle showed that if ever Britons confront Germans on anything like equal terms, Britain stands a good chance of winning...
Outspeeding journalistic rumor and far faster than truth, but not so fast as to outpace the bitterness and gloom which fanned out over the whole tired earth, Adolf Hitler's legions advanced last week on all fronts. They crushed Yugoslavia (see p. 29). They rushed upon the Greeks and British in Macedonia. They regained all of Cyrenaica in Libya (see p. 32}. On the high seas they continued to sink British supply ships at a rate which the British officially admitted now bordered upon 400,000 tons a month-a rate at which the British Isles could hold...
...tired scenery, oopsy ballet, timid stagecraft, ruthless mugging of the Met may have irritated operagoers more often than not. But the end of the season brought gloom last week to one of its fans: burly, weather-beaten Joseph Bartnik, traffic cop at the corner. A onetime burlesque-house tenor, Patrolman Bartnik likes to drop in on rehearsals, has had many a pass for Met performances...