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...laid on gravel. The mats are a fairly recent improvement; there was a time when the tricycle landing-geared 6-243 could not be used from X-Mile Field because the nose wheel would sink down in the loose dirt. At the lower end of the field is a graveyard of cracked-up and salvaged planes. When the bombers lift their wings over this they are quickly out over the open...
Arthur Guy Empey, 59, famed private who wrote World War I's best-selling Over The Top, was rediscovered by the camera's eye: he works on the "graveyard shift" as a guard at Vega Aircraft's plant in Burbank...
Stalingrad was a graveyard for 100,000 of the Herrenvolk's fresh, young sons, The Caucasian oilfields of Maikop were lost. Along the Eastern Front, along the North African coast, the Fuhrer's hurt and weary armies were in retreat...
...three sections on "The Humanities," "The Social Studies," and "The Natural Sciences," which have replaced the traditional graveyard of unrecognizable Faculty photos are the high spots of the volume. These sections, illustrated with well-chosen candid shots of teachers in the fields, and each written by an outstanding Faculty member, serve to place a Harvard education in its social and intellectual context. Professor F. O. Matthiesscu's article on the value of the Humanities in a world at war should make the Album required reading for every American college student and instructor...
...fortunate. Axis U-boats still scour the central Atlantic in packs, trying to break up Allied convoys en route to North Africa. North American coastal waters several hundred miles out have been cleared of subs, except for an occasional lone scout. But in the old North Atlantic graveyard, convoys to Russia and Britain suffer systematic and heavy attacks. Sixty-seven sinkings reported last week brought the war total up to 3,801 ships sunk, of which 2,029 were Allied ships. So far, 63,154 seamen of all nations have been killed or are missing...