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Lieut. General Knudsen started his tireless jaunt February i, three days after the President put him in uniform as director of Army Production. He has been to 350 plants in nearly a hundred cities and towns; he has flown 55,000 miles over the U.S.; he has talked to thousands of Americans about their work. In six swift months Knudsen has had an experience that would make any land-conscious American poet desperately envious. No poet of words, he is the kind of American who fingers shiny, greasy machines with a conscious, tactile pleasure-and because he loves machines they...
Both lineups are identical with those named before the New Haven jaunt. Last minute sicknesses altered the starting Harvard nine, but except for the possibility that Fitzgibbons will not have had enough practice to play, Coach Floyd Stahl will start his first string. VARSITY LINEUPS HARVARD YALE O'Donnell, cf ss, Carton Waldstein, p p, Harrison Harvey, 2b 1b, Whelan Fitzgibbons, 1b rf, Goodspeed Barnes, rf 3b, Heath Callanan, c 2b, Witt Clay, lf lf, Walsh Drake, ss cf, Pope Whittemore, 3b c, White
...Throughout the entire show, heavy bombers flew at an altitude of about 75 yards directly over the heads of the audience and landed across the road at Hickam Field. For another performance, the cast had to travel part way by jeep, by motor launch across Pearl Harbor, then a jaunt by miniature railroad, and finally by army trucks. Once arrived . . . we gave the show on a stage composed of dinner tables. When we do a show at night we usually travel in a convoy of army trucks and have a blanket night pass for the whole troupe. Several weeks...
Originally cancelled, the game was re-scheduled as a post season meeting, and the Dartmouth Athletic Council is paying the expenses of the trip to Hanover which might otherwise make the jaunt impracticable...
Both the first and second tennis teams get in the fight at Milton. Dorson named his regular six in this order last night: Max Tufts, John Zinsser, Gene Sands, Dick Holtiqanger, Stan Collinson, and Steve Eaton. Five reserves will also made the jaunt, and they will oppose the Blue and Gold scrubs...