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...students, the University of Chicago's 46-year-old President Robert Maynard Hutchins, onetime boy wonder of U.S. education, launched into the subject of war criminals (see INTERNATIONAL). What he said was provocative: he asked for mercy for the Germans. It was the first round in an argument of which the world would hear more...
Bombing Japan from the Marianas, near their extreme round-trip range (3,600 miles), the Superfortresses now have a handy way station-Iwo Jima-on which to land when they are lamed in combat or too short of fuel to make it back to Guam, Saipan or Tinian. Fighter escort from Iwo has also helped to cut losses. Result: the Jap airfields on Kyushu have taken a persistent beating, and enemy fighter production has been cut 50%. In April, the B-295 unloaded 30,000 tons of bombs-as much as in the ten preceding months-but U.S. losses dropped...
...operations plan was known as "Foo-Foo." In preparation the Australian First Tactical Air Force had flown the 1,400-mile round trip from Morotai to bomb Tarakan heavily. U.S. bombers of the Thirteenth Air Force added their bit. Then U.S. Rear Admiral Russell S. Berkey sailed his light task force of cruisers and destroyers in for four days' naval bombardment. Foo-Foo really got rolling when U.S. Rear Admiral Forrest B. Royal brought up his Seventh Fleet landing craft loaded with tough, felt-hatted veterans of the illustrious 9th Australian Division and a token Dutch force...
Eugene Meyer, who became a publisher at 57, is used to irate readers after twelve years of owning the plain-speaking Post. His defensive equipment includes a bland, impressive air, two years of boxing lessons from Heavyweight Champion James J. Corbett, and a one-round 1942 decision over Jesse Jones, who also once objected to a Post editorial. From this armory of possible defenses, Publisher Meyer chose the mildest. Said he: "Mr. Secretary, I will be glad to discuss this with you after you have calmed down a little." Having given the Secretary of State a lesson in diplomacy...
This coming Varsity contest will be the last of a series of six service teams. During the next month the schedule will consist mainly of civilian colleges, including Worcester Polytech, Brown, Tufts, and Northeastern. Largely at home, these games will round out the spring season, ending in the Tufts game here June...