Word: groups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this sports program, vast as it may be, includes no more than half the students in regular activity. For many undergraduates, athletic participation consists of watching a few football and baseball games, playing squash once or twice, and glancing over House Manager's notices. By not joining activities, this group of students helps to subsidize, in effect, a large share of the athletic program...
...girls as a group are a bouncy crew, with Dulcie the bounciest, Fay (Abigail Liggett) and Nancy (Alexandra Hilford) lively enough, and Maisie (Margaretha Walk) not quite with it though she tries very hard. The boys--Robert Hatfield, David Kopelman, Norman Fox and Herbert Parsons--have a grand time mostly playing themselves and dancing with the girls; but on the whole they failed to impress...
Taylor stated that "the American army is generally a civilian army in time of war, and plans never work out according to the way they're set up." Trying to record "not merely what was supposed to happen but what actually happened," Taylor and his group must have succeeded, as the fact that their case studies are still used in training in camps will testify...
...great public servants in the war" was his own colleague in the History Department, Coolidge Professor William L. Langer '15, who directed the Research and Analysis Branch, Office of Strategic Services. Starting in 1941 under "Wild Bill" Donovan, Langer helped organize what he calls a "super-university," a group of highly qualified experts on foreign affairs, experts that knew other countries inside out from personal experience and years of study. One of the first few in OSS--which was barely organized by Pearl Harbor--by the end of the war he had a staff of 1500 working under his guidance...
...course, there were occasional mishaps, and Langer recalls with a smile the group of OSS men sent to Burma by way of the Mediterranean who were stopped by Allied forces in North Africa. Since they could not reveal their secret mission, they were compounded for a week until clearance from Washington came through...