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Information concerning Cambridge boarding houses is secured and compiled by the Information Committee, while the Publications Committee publishes the Freshman Handbook and the P.B.H. News. There are also committees in several of the graduate schools, which mainly plan and stage social events...
...German professor wants to write a handbook called How To Take A Conquered Small Country Apart, he will find valuable source material in an article "I Saw Greece Looted" which the Nation published last week. It is by Ralph Kent, an American from Rome, N.Y. who was principal of Athens College. Mr. Kent reports that the Nazis stripped Greece of not only food, automobiles, bicycles and furniture, but carried off even doorknobs, locks & keys. Latest Nazi wrinkle: Mussolini sent 1,000 cases of milk to Greek babies who needed it desperately; ten cases were distributed, then the Nazis followed...
...these super men fly a few years, some of them become irritable, neurotic, deaf,with stomach trouble, nightmares, high blood pressure, liable to die several years before their time from heart disease. Such a dismaying picture of fliers' occupational diseases might be put together from the solid medical handbook for fliers published last week by famed Army Flight Surgeons Malcolm Cummings Grow and Harry George Armstrong (Fit to Fly-Appleton-Century...
Veteran of World War I and of the Spanish Civil War, in which he commanded the British battalion of the International Brigade, Tom Wintringham wrote and harangued against the spit-&-polish, close-order drill snobbery of Sandhurst. In a handbook called New Ways of War (TIME, Nov.11), he insisted that the only way to repel an invasion was to supplement Britain's regular forces with an army of 4,000,000 civilians trained with maximum democracy and efficiency. To this end the Home Guard Training School was organized, and Tom taught his men sniping, barricading, bombing with homemade bombs...
...which were supposed to be rabbit snares. Long before the Boy Scouts of America were formally organized, a generation of U.S. boys had studied The American Boys' Handy Book, which inspired the whole how-to-make-it outdoors literature that culminated in the official Boy Scouts' Handbook for Boys...