Word: middlesex
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the usual lack of outside entries, the University cross country handicap will have the greatest number of would-be harriers in several years. This is due to the fact that Coach Jaakko Mikkola has been very successful in luring men up into the hills of Middlesex Fells Reservation, where the squad has been practicing for more than a week...
Indicted last April on charges of criminal libel against President Roosevelt, Edward H. James '96, leader of the fascistic "Yankee-American Action" which held weekly meetings in PBH two years ago, was adjudged sane in a report submitted Friday by two Boston psychiatrists to Judge Vincent Brogna of the Middlesex superior criminal court...
...John K. Howard and H. Wendell Endicott (Endicott-Johnson shoes), visited Britain last year. They were impressed by the Home Guard School conducted by Guerrilla Tom Wintringham for the British War Office (TIME, May 25). Last week came the result: on the velvet-lawn-and-colonial-brick campus of Middlesex School at Concord, Major General Sherman Miles, Commander of the First Corps Area, abetted by the Committee, opened a tactical school. Purpose: to teach guerrilla-warfare methods to State Guards. The Commandant is Lawyer Howard, now a lieutenant colonel...
...perhaps 400. To protect the whole area with an army is prohibitively expensive in men and materiel. Only a civilian force of guerrillas naturally spread throughout the area, can take the sting out of surprise and speed until the regulars get there. The school at Middlesex may lead, as in Britain, to an integrated Home Guard under the War Department...
...Real Ride. The one thing everybody knows about Paul Revere is his ride. But Biographer Forbes can only nod affectionately towards Longfellow's ballad. The Paul Revere who roused the Middlesex village and farms was no hotheaded youth, but a stocky family man of 40. Neither did he gallop in wild anapest down the road to Lexington. The lanterns that were hung in Christ's Church steeple ("one if by land, two if by sea") were not hung for Paul Revere. He had helped put them there. His ride was a cool, businesslike night's work...