Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ever understood each other so perfectly. Mon C. Wallgren, an old crony from the Senate and now the lame-duck Governor of Washington, arrived and gave newsmen an exhibition of his skill at billiards (he was national amateur 18.2 balkline champion in 1929). Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington, whose help in the presidential campaign had been negligible and whose fate now was the secret of Mr. Truman, came & went...
Newsmen whipped themselves up into a froth of excitement when it was announced that Secretary of Defense James Forrestal would arrive. The day before, in Washington, Forrestal had announced that he was sending 1,250 marines from Guam to Tsingtao to reinforce 4,850 marines already in China and help in the evacuation of Americans. For the moment it looked as if something might be cooking on U.S. policy in the Far East...
...last week U.S. and British airmen were confident that they were over the hump. With the help of reserves built up during summer months, Berlin now had stockpiles of food and fuel which could keep the city going for a month with no resupply at all. Despite the weather, and wholesale predictions of a prohibitive accident rate, only three U.S. planes had cracked up so far this month. All crewmen escaped without fatal injuries (though three British airmen died in one R.A.F. crash...
...head the program, is sending out pamphlets today to delegations at other universities instructing them on how to arrange for the DP's at their own colleges. The program aims at persuading the 250 member colleges to accept as many of the DI's as possible and to help pay their expenses...
Simultaneously, tailback Chuck Roche has indicated he plans to go to summer school in order to graduate in August. Although Roche would be a great help next fall with his running, passing, and kicking, his loss would probably not hurt the Crimson so much as Henry's. Valpey has severed good tailbacks, but no offensive quarterbacks like Henry...