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Only battle will prove how good are these 40,000, and only battle will give them the combat polish that marks the full-fledged fighting man. But T.I.S., vastly expanded, vastly speeded up, has worked its pupils into a soldier's mold with an efficiency that has made pedagogues gape. Yale's Dr. James G. Rogers calls it "magnificent." A Harvard Law School professor, after a lifetime studying teaching methods, was unable to suggest an improvement, said it was "perhaps the most important place in America." A graduate, who had degrees from Harvard and Oxford, said: "My education...
This hard fact dominated last week's parleys in Algiers, at which Generals Charles de Gaulle and Henri Honore Giraud hammered out the mold of a new, united France. Through De Gaullism the people of France struck a blow for themselves and a blow against secret diplomacy. Neither General Giraud, whose authority in North Africa had been recognized by the U.S. and Great Britain while De Gaulle fretted in London, nor U.S. Minister Robert D. Murphy, who has a distaste for both De Gaulle and De Gaullism, dared to flout their will...
Stahl has a fair sprinkling of veterans still on hand, and it is around these men that he intends to mold his 1943 club. Ned Fitzgibbons, the team's foremost slugger, who has played at first base and in the outfield for Harvard, has been shifted to the catcher's job, a post where he is more at home...
Although still new to Harvard and the Supply Corps, the Midshipmen have learned to place their trust in these men and have seen their efficient administration mold a diversified group of new Navy men into a well organized and smooth functioning unit...
...wonder drug of 1943 may prove to be penicillin, obscured since its discovery in Britain in 1929, only now getting its thorough sickroom trial. It is made from a mold (TIME, Sept. 15, 1941) by a slow, laborious process. All the penicillin in the U.S. at any one time has never been more than about enough to treat 30 cases...