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...Friends. In this friendly atmosphere, General Eisenhower's G-5 (Civil Affairs) is doing a magnificent job. G-5 boss in the Cherbourg area is Lieut. Colonel Frank L. Howley, a onetime Philadelphia advertising-agency executive. His team includes 22 officers and 22 men. The officers (a few are British) are specialists in public health and sanitation, water supply, police and public safety...
...start, Colonel Howley laid down a basic rule: "The business of civil administration belongs to the French. Our job is merely to help them cope with an emergency." He and his men, American and British, have worked on that principle ever since. Within two or three days, most of the essential services were at least in partial operation. Civil Affairs men had even helped to reopen a Cherbourg cinema, revive a local newspaper...
...French in Cherbourg are deeply touched by the deference shown them. U.S. and British authorities are in turn impressed by the friendly efficiency of the French. Says Colonel Howley: "If the French elsewhere in France buckle down to the job of reconstruction as they have here in Cherbourg, leaving recrimination aside, France has a period of greatness ahead of her which even exceeds the past...
Bruce Wilson and Buck Sheridan, the ends, are not up to the standard of last year's Captain Bowie Stanley. Dick Schmon, who would ordinarily start in place of Sheridan (a Sophomore), is hurt. While Jim Howley recovers from a splintered hand, Pen Drinker a Sophomore is filling in at tackle along with Bill Morris. They are fairly good but wouldn't make graceful ballet-dancers...
Nathan Adler '42, Robert W. Blake 2L, William S. Davis Jr., '44 Lawrence E. Gamble Herbert T. Greene OcC. Firman A. Houghton, Dix Lesson '43, William R. Parsons Jr., '42, Charles F. Howley, Jr., '48, William R. Thurston...