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Small, slight, 32-year-old Walliser is a Phi Beta Kappa from Northwestern University, despite the fact that he was nearly thrown out three times before he graduated. As an editorial writer on the Daily Northwestern, he wrote a bitter editorial criticizing the library, was forthwith fired from the paper. Next he tried his hand at the Purple Parrot, Northwestern's comic sheet, turned out a parody American Mercury, with a story about prostitutes, that resulted in the Parrot's suppression. As his farewell to collegiate belles-lettres, Walliser took over the high-brow Scrawl, had that suppressed...
Graziani, by week's end, had pushed the vanguard of his 260,000 desert troops 50 miles along the coast of northwestern Egypt to Sidi Barráni. There he stopped, or was stopped. Ahead of him, along a salt-scarred road-a three-hour run in a fast tank-lay Mersa Matruh, first major objective in Italy's drive to conquer Egypt, a prize the Fascist press at home could shout through the streets as noisily as the populace once roared at slaves in clanking chains. But Graziani waited...
...Owis win even by daylight Notre Dame College of Pacific 20-0 Score can be pronounced Marquette Wisconsin 7-0 Badgered again Fordham West Virginia 14-6 Rams too tough Navy Cincinnsti 13-0 Could be upet here Army Williams 20-0 On brave old Army Team Northwestern Syracuse 13-0 Go you Northwestern Bowdoin Wesleyan 13-7 Will win this one St. Mary's California 14-7 Bears still groggy Michigan Michigan State 20-7 Hail to the victors valiant Ohio State Purdue 26-13 A track meet Cornell Colgate 13-0 Ithacans too smooth...
There are no more matches in unoccupied France, LIFE reports in an essay on Vichy this week. Matches came from Scandinavia and the Germans let no more through. Milk, butter and cheese are scarce or nonexistent, for the Germans rule the great northwestern dairy area. No new stores of sugar from the occupied beet-sugar district around Lille are destined for Free France. Free France will eat none of this summer's harvest from the breadbasket of the northern plains. There is still tobacco in the Rhone Valley and Auvergne, but those shops in Provence that still have stocks...
Known on the Northwestern campus for his so called "fur fez", Professor McGovern taught in the Government Department here three years...