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...nation's wartime civilian chiefs have begun their exodus from Washington. Last week Assistant Secretary of War John Jay McCloy, policy handler for the War Department and its liaison man with the State Department, stepped out. A few days later the resignation of his colleague, Assistant Secretary for Air Robert Abercrombie Lovett, landed on the White House desk...
...speed, and an aggressive instinct for team play, he fed a stream of passes to linemates Elmer Lach and Maurice Richard, by Christmas had piled up 19 assists and 15 goals. That gave him a one-point, bonus-earning edge over veteran Bill Cowley, the slick stick handler and playmaking ace of the Boston Bruins...
Whittled down to 12 men, the Varsity squad members compose a varied group. Aggressive Jack Clark, from LeRoy High, New York, played ball at Lafayette College before coming to Harvard in the V-12. A fine ball handler and feeder, he is a dangerous man under the basket...
...Chapple, another smooth ball handler, comes from Garfield Heights, Cleveland, and is also in the V-12 at Eliot House. Chester Pierce, Freshman civilian from Glen Cove, New York, and Lowell House, starred on the Varsity eleven last fall. Mackintosh played for the Law, renceville School, and is now in the NROTC...
...other breeds. Their skill at ferreting out snipers terrified the Japs there from the beginning. One dog chased four Japs into a cave, where they committed suicide with grenades rather than fight it out. All the animals are trained to attack and kill on signal. Said a sergeant handler: "They are mean dogs and we make them meaner...