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Most of the new sources are letters and journals written by soldiers, and they yield hundreds of shockingly vivid vignettes from the beaches and trenches. You won't soon forget the account of Bill Millin, bagpiper for the 1st Special Service Brigade of the British Army, who had to march out of the surf onto Sword Beach under rifle and mortar fire playing "Highland Laddie." And Beevor focuses on things other writers have neglected. For example, he doesn't gloss over the hideous costs paid by French civilians. The Allies, before liberating them, bombed them relentlessly in an attempt...
Twice finding its doors locked, the 100 demonstrators marched to University Hall, where they held a "millin" in the first-floor offices of Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. They left after one and a half hours, when Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University--and unofficial "troubleshooter" for the President--told them that the President would meet with representatives that evening on the 10th floor of Holyoke Center...
...push the Harvard Campaign's goal over the top, a group--including the 23 members of the Campaign's executive committee and four other alumni-established a $25 millin "challenge fend" in January...
South Africa's literature is remarkable for the fact that its women writers are better than the men. The best South African biography is Sarah Gertrude Millin's Cecil Rhodes; the best novels, Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm (1883) and Pauline Smith's The Beadle (1926). Publication of The Fire-Raisers brings another woman novelist into the front rank of South African fiction...
...Freshman barriers copied the Varsity by toppling their Holy Cross opponents 26 to 38. In this race O'Leary and Millin of Holy Cross finished first and second, while Hans Hachman of the Yardlings took a third. The course was two and three-fifths miles long, and the winning time was 14 minutes, 39.8 seconds...