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Allen C. Percival '42, of Fitchburg and Kirkland House, was chosen from the Military Science R.O.T.C. Unit to receive a regular commission as second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps upon graduation this June, it was announced yesterday.
Percival, a cadet captain, honor student, and regimental adjutant of the field artillery unit, was chosen from among 75 Seniors for the honor, which is awarded each year to an outstanding member of the graduating group of the regiment. A commission in the regular army is also awarded annually to...
Married. Pamela Wavell, oldest of the three daughters of General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell; and Lieut. Francis Humphrys, son of Lieut. Colonel Sir Francis Humphrys, onetime British Ambassador to Iraq; in Cairo.
By holding over the heads of foreign correspondents the threat of arrest for espionage, the Germans had imposed an unofficial but very effective censorship before the American entry into the war, Percival R. Knauth, formerly Berlin correspondent for the New York Times, said here Sunday.
Victory was no longer the question. The opposite choice, death, would have meant the useless slaughter of civilians. And so General Percival made the hard, the humiliating choice. He went, as directed, to a Ford Motor plant at the foot of Bukit Timah, a hill where, earlier that day, there...