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Another new Battlefronts writer (who worked 11 years for the Associated Press) began following the battle for Europe long before Munich-went through the bombing of Barcelona and the Spanish War, was bombed again in Brussels in 1940, got out of Belgium just a jump ahead of the Nazis, then worked for months in occupied Paris and collaborating Vichy ("I began to feel like a Jonah"). Two years ago he was awarded a Nieman Fellowship in journalism at Harvard, and five years before that the National Headliners Club gave him a gold plaque for the best spot news coverage...
Rehabilitation officials, who had expected discharged servicemen to jump at Canada's offer of free schooling (and living expenses), reported last week that servicemen were not much interested...
Shopkeepers were closing their doors, unable to sell what luxury goods they had left (fine German cameras, handsome Swiss watches), unwilling to sell for drachmas what little food they had. A fish seller would refuse several billion drachmas, but jump at the offer of some fresh olives in exchange for a fish. Three cigarets would buy more than cash in a market where bread was priced at 11 billions a pound, eggs at 15 billions apiece...
...Manhattan last week U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey told the rest of the story: Radovich finally went to his commanding officer and confessed that he had once accepted bribes to save two other soldiers from duty overseas. Radovich was only half a jump ahead of an investigation already under way. But he was obsessed with the idea that God would punish him by punishing his son, he said. He made a clean breast...
Getting the jump on other league members, Lowell House has swung into high gear and is rounding into shape fairly rapidly. Much heavier than last term, the Bellboy team is packed with returning veterans, who in addition to going through conditioning exercises this week, have been working on their aerial attack in preparation for next Wednesday's opening game with the Eliot NROTC. Included in the long list of returning Lowell gridmen are 'Ayres, Brock, Harrison, Robb, Ryan, Sammond, and Sutton...