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...Winthrop-Kirkland affair showed the power of the strong third place Puritans as they stepped one futile step nearer the Leverett aggregation. Kirkland could not put on a consistent offense against their opponents and never once got inside the Winthrop 20-yard stripe...
...Staff (Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief; Admiral King; General Marshall; Lieut. General Henry H. Arnold, the Army Air Chief) meeting at lunch, meeting with British military chiefs. The bitter truth of war which stirred the people had also brought their leaders nearer to that close understanding which the people feared was lacking...
Divided Command. The nearer Hanson Baldwin got to the fighting front, the closer he found the cooperation between Army and Navy. At the top he found fairly close integration, with room for improvement. It was in the middle ranks, particularly among airmen, that he found the most recrimination and distrust. One reason: the Army's exaggerated reports on the role of Army bombers in the Battle of Midway (Baldwin: "The Navy's carriers did the job"). Baldwin saw Navy, Marine and Army men in almost identical khaki, working "in close harmony in combat areas," concluded: "There...
...problem of the cuckoo was a step nearer solution last week, with the publication of Cuckoo Problems (H.F. & G. Witherby, Ltd., London), an authoritative treatise on the somewhat wayward habits of large European and Asiatic cuckoos which lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, leave their young to be brought up by foster parents.* Author: the 78-year-old dean of British ornithologists, Edward Charles Stuart Baker, C.I.E.; O.B.E.; F.Z.S.; M.B.O.U.; H.F.A.O.U.; H.F.H.O.U.; F.L.S...
...industry, and Ordzhonikidze gave his name to the town at the junction of two highways. These and other native sons helped to make the Caucasus strong by granting the states autonomy within the Soviet Union. Last week their land and their wisdom were at stake as the Germans drew nearer...