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...American Soldier" was published by the Princeton University Press. Besides Stouffer, Edward A Suchman, Leland C. Devinney, Shirley A. Star, and Robin M. Williams, Jr. worked on the report for the Army. The work is in two big volumes...
...golf team will weekend in Now Haven today and tomorrow, playing Yale, Princeton, and Columbia in the two-day Eastern Intercollegiates. The host two teams in the round-robin matches will go to Atlantic City later this month to play the winners of the Southern Intercollegiates...
Boston University, Northeastern, Boston College, and Tufts finished behind the Crimson in that order. Pete Putnam, Frank Scully, and John Gardner skippered the Harvard boats in the round robin, which had each crew sail six times in six different boats...
...plus, Winston got 74 brooches, necklaces, bracelets, and two world-famed diamonds, the robin's-egg-sized Hope diamond* (44½ carats) and the Star of the East (100 carats). Though Winston laughed at the legend that the Hope diamond had brought only trouble or tragedy to its owners and wearers, he soon had his pressagents grinding out new embellishments of the tale (samples: "Marie Antoinette, who wore it, was beheaded . . . Solomon Habib, Oriental diamond merchant who handled the gem, has been ill for 40 years"). Winston planned to send the collection on a nationwide tour of museums...
...surprise presidential order transferred control of the nine transports to the Army from the Maritime Commission which had operated the ships for student travel last summer. The ships all capable of carrying up to 900 passengers, were the Ernic Pyle, the Marine Jumper, Marine Carp, Marine Marlin, Marine Robin, and Marine Perch, as well as the three boats named above...