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Died. Charles R. Apted, 67, mild-mannered, bespectacled head of Harvard "yard cops" for 39 years; in Cambridge, Mass. Protector of boys as well as property, he gently dissolved student "riots," bailed the too-high-spirited out of jail at unearthly hours, restored to Yale the Harvard-snatched bulldog, Handsome Dan, restored to Boston's State House the wooden "sacred cod," covered up for the culprits...
...empire. Not only bits of Africa would be hers; she would rule Mare Nostrum and its shores. Italian ships would ply back & forth between Italy and Cyrenaica, Tripolitania, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco; to the east they would sail to the gates of Islam, which would recognize Italy as its protector. Italian settlers would occupy all the fertile shores of Mare Nostrum, and Mare Nostrum would be Italian forever...
...other hand, Mussolini's record in Libya has shown that he falls far short of being the "Protector of Islam." In less than a generation of Italian rule, the Moslems in Eritrea have decreased from over a million to 400,000. And Hitler's prestige is not raised by his contemptuous references to the Arabs in "Mein Kampf...
...information on where U-boats, enemy raiders and planes are operating. By the afternoon the plotted charts and recommended courses are forwarded to the naval staff for study. Then directions are teletyped to the secret headquarters, in a west-coast port, of the man whom Britons consider the protector of the Atlantic: Admiral Sir Percy Noble, Commander in Chief of the Western Approaches...
...nearly 20 years. Insatiably, week after week, legions of boys gobbled him up between paper covers, price 5?. Their parents approved, for Frank was incarnate perfection ("frank and merry in nature, well in body and mind"). He was not only a superb athlete with no vices, but a protector of the bullied, a friend to the friendless. As a pitcher he could make his curve ball break either...