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...University of Kansas (where basketball was introduced by its mentor the late James A. Naismith) last week showed the hoop-eyed world something to marvel at. Its team, coached by Forrest C. ("Phog") Allen (Naismith's star pupil), who has won the Conference championship in 18 of the last 25 years, took on three teams in one evening, and trounced all three-the North American Bombers of Kansas City (45-to-36), the Rosecrans Field Flyers (71-to-22), Camp Crowder...
...ears. She wrote: "When I consulted my husband, he remarked that I had disturbed no one by my knitting at far more difficult and technical lectures at the Universities of Oxford, Chicago, California and Harvard and that, therefore, I might assume that I would be giving no offense. ... I... marvel that anyone should wish in a world so full of mountains of hostility to magnify so grandiloquently so petty a molehill...
...long as World War II is fought, the few professionals among U.S. Army officers are likely to marvel at the administrative proficiency and combat leadership of a far larger class: the emergency officers* who are the bulk of Army command. Last week the Army, now rising above 5,000,000 men, told where its officers came from...
...soon be manufactured on a grand scale by Glen O. Martin '46 of Joplin, Missouri, and Weld Hall. The new device which will soon be a must in every student's wardrobe, according to Martin, is called the Little Dandy Umbreller-Repeller, and really seems to be a marvel of simple efficiency...
News-hungry U.S. citizens, their appetites for North African news still unsated, might well marvel that in the face of these difficulties they had received any detailed North African news...