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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Civilian Houses Hit All-Time Low...
...number of Houses occupied by civilians will be brought to an all-time low in the ensuing term, descending from seven Houses a year ago when Adams, Eliot, Kirkland, Winthrop, Leverett, Lowell, and Dunster were all occupied by civilian undergraduates. At the beginning of the summer term of last year, Eliot, Kirkland, Winthrop, and Leverett were turned over to the Naval V-12 unit and the Army Specialized Training Program...
...Hitler Gang (Paramount) is a triumph of cinemakeup. With uncanny realism it recreates the physical appear ance of the Nazi bigwigs in a fascinating collection of talking waxworks. Paramount hunted high & low for Nazi doubles. The Hitler was easy. Cinemactor Robert Watson has already scared little children in that role in four pictures (The Devil with Hitler, Hitler, Dead or Alive, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The Nazi Nuisance). He practiced his earnest performance so strenuously that he wore his larynx to a frazzle. One night the neigh bors, hearing his hysterical yawpings against Jews, came over...
...island of Corregidor, Japanese batteries which had been shelling the island constantly for seven days opened up with a new and concentrated frenzy from their positions on the heights of Mariveles. Japanese infantrymen, ferried across the channel by small boats and bamboo rafts, swarmed onto the island's low-lying eastern shore...
...costs $18. Batting gloves are $5 a pair, kneepads $10. The ball costs $5. Because the fields are not surfaced for cricket, each team has to bring its own 20-yd.-long fiber mat ($75 apiece) to cover the pitch (bowling area). The supply of balls is running low, but a shipment from Britain is expected to ease the situation...