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This summer the Elis will confine their crew activities to the harbor at New Haven, which is much nearer at hand but offers more limited facilities. In addition to that handicap, Miller suggested, the Yale shells may be barred from those waters for military reasons...
Boston's old, famed harbor lies closer to the Atlantic convoy routes than any U.S. shipping center, 200 miles nearer to Europe than any other big U.S. seaport. Boston Harbor is deep. Railheads are at water's edge. There are plenty of piers, cranes, warehouses for handling cargoes; plenty of trained labor. But last week, while other Atlantic ports were chockablock with war supplies, Boston docks and warehouses were empty.* The nation's handiest harbor on the Eastern Seaboard was a ghost port...
...back into power this Tuesday when old Marshal Pétain knuckled under to Hitler again, announced that he would give Hitler's slippery French favorite a post in the Government. At the same time Pétain called off the Riom trials until they could be rigged nearer to Hitler's desire...
...Orchestra (Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Artur Rodzinski; Columbia; 6 sides). The Show Boat tunes, some of the bravest in U.S. operetta, were dressed up last year by their composer in symphonic finery at the persuasion of Conductor Rodzinski. The resulting potpourri is lush, places Jerome Kern no whit nearer Beethoven as a symphonist, but Rodzinski's silky performance makes even more apparent Kern's Schubertian gift for melody...
...because of their selfishness, is not only shortsighted, but dangerous. It is still not a choice between winning the war or maintaining our democracy. We can do both. We can pass the anti-poll tax bill in Congress and not be any further from victory. We'll be nearer the double victory that America needs...