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...this year the Yardlings, by winning today could become the University's first Freshman soccer team to go through its schedule with an unblemished record. HARVARD YALE Batchelder g. Schelpert Harrop rfb. Matthlesson Scully lfb. Dulaney Mudd rhb. Martin Bell chb. Wright Langmann lhb. Jolin Spivah rof. Griggs Morgan rif. Gruner Chen cf. Ford Gilbert lif Stannard Register lof. Dupree...
...thick and treacherous as the Tunisian mud was the political situation (see p. 32). A constant, silent threat was the Rif territory of Spanish Morocco, lying squarely behind the Allied lines and along the Straits of Gibraltar. Estimates of the number of Spanish troops there ran from 100,000 to 200,000. Among them were efficient fighting men-the Spanish Foreign Legion and tough Moors. Short of heavy equipment, they were well enough armed to hack an attenuated supply line. As long as Fascist Premier Franco ran Spain, sullen, uncertain Spanish Morocco would pin down a certain number of watchful...
Harvard Varsity Lineup: g Keene; rfb Slingerland, Taylor; lfb Harbison rhb Butcher; chb Clarke; lhb Mallory rof Murphy; rif Gifford; cf Sawhill, Calhoun; lif Drake; lof Berman...
...seen in 450 years: Moorish tribesmen, bearded and burnoosed, swinging their long brass-mounted rifles on the way to fight in Spain. News of the march caused grim chuckles to a ginger-bearded fat gentleman on the Island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean. Abdel Krim, Rif chieftain who mocked the armies of Spain for six years until French intervention in 1925 brought about his defeat & exile, knew last week that his own Rif tribesmen were being rearmed by the very officers they had fought, paid four pesetas a day and sent to Spain to war on the Socialist Government...
Last week, day before the Senate elections, King Farouk sailed into Alexandria harbor on the British liner Viceroy of India. In Cairo the young King knelt before the tomb of his father in the Mosque of Er-Rifái, met Queen Mother Nazli and his four sisters at Abdin Palace. His work was ended when he recognized as his heir his first cousin, 61-year-old Prince Mohammed Ali, son of his father's eldest brother and his father's nominee for president of the Council of Regents to replace a nominee who had died...