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Sinclair Lewis, on a debating tour with Author Lewis Browne (This Believing World), was interviewed in Spokane by a girl reporter, gave her an earful. Said he: "I went through the fifth grade and I think that is sufficient." When she soberly recorded this in the Spokesman-Review, Lewis (Yale A.B. '07, Litt.D. '36) stomped into the paper's city room to raise the roof. The girl reporter fled in tears as Lewis blatted: "My dear young child . . . you should have known . . . My God . . . I've been called nine kinds...
Local observance of Navy Day on October 27 will be high-lighted by the Soldiers Field event in which the Harvard Naval Training Schools pass in review before Rear Admiral R. A. Theobald, USN, Commandant of the First Naval District...
Starting at 11 o'clock, the hour-long ceremonies will be under the direction of the recently appointed Brigade Commander, Lt. Comdr. M. E. Paradise, USNR, Officer-in-charge of the Communications School. Handling preliminary plans for the review is Lt. Comdr. H. N. Marshall, USNR, of the Naval ROTC staff, who serves as Sub-Commander. Lt. (j.g.) H. M. Hansen, USNR, side to the Executive Officer of the Communications School, will act as Brigade Adjutant...
Another new Foreign News writer was two and a half years a correspondent in Berlin and Bern-and a third was largely responsible for the New York Times' News of the Week in Review. A new writer in Army & Navy was in Warsaw for the New York Herald Tribune when the Germans blitzed into Poland-stuck it out there after the Government had fled-was one of the last four American correspondents to escape. Still another new writer (World Battlefronts) was sent to London by the A.P. just in time to cover the Blitz and the Battle of Britain...
...review, postponed from Friday, October 1, was the official debut of the V-12 men now in training at Harvard, Music was supplied by the V-12 band under the direction of Lieut. (j.g.) Earle W. Barnes...