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This song of praise for "the oldest college daily" is contained in a recent circular put out by the New Haven journalists in an effort to bolster up a sagging circulation with name Vassar subscriptions...
...Representatives of one of the oldest and most famous institutions of its kind in the world" (obviously the Bank of England) revealed to news correspondents, as the results of a two-year search, that all the top men in A. Hitler & Co., with the sole exception of A. Hitler, long ago took care to deposit fortunes and take out big insurance policies outside of Germany. Hermann GÖring, Rudolf Hess, Paul Joseph Goebbels, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Robert Ley, Heinrich Himmler and Julius Streicher were all specifically named.* The total of their holdings was categorically fixed...
...oldest President elected, William Henry Harrison, 68, died of pneumonia in 1841, after a month in office...
Among scores of grey shapes playing hide & seek in deadly earnest through the coastal waters around Great Britain was H. M. S. Courageous, oldest vessel of Britain's six aircraft carriers. Her broad, windswept flight deck was busy with planes coming & going to scout for U-boats. Last Sunday evening, just before the dusk hour at which the Athenia was sunk two Sundays prior, the eyes that saved others were not quick enough to save the Courageous. "There were two distinct bangs at intervals of about a second" (said a survivor) and the 22,500-ton craft - torpedoed squarely...
...Presidents have had their offices in University Hall for over one hundred years, but the new change is in keeping with Harvard's historic tradition since Massachusetts Hall is the oldest University building...