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...Germany they call flu Kellergrippe. One British expert thinks it got there by a roundabout plane ride from Britain to the U.S. to South America to Lisbon to Ber lin. He did not explain why the infection could not have gone directly from London, by parachuting flyer, to the Continent. Flu was reported by Swedish papers to have killed 2,000 Berliners last week...
Aside from this rather roundabout statement of Crimson football plans, the last announcement on the subject came last May when people were shocked to hear that Harvard was abandoning football--formal football, that...
...roundabout routes, they flew to Eglin Field, Fla. Lieut, (now Captain) Ted Lawson picked up four men on the way. There was matter-of-fact Dean Davenport, co-pilot ("I liked the way he flew"), Charles McClure, navigator, Bob Clever, bombardier, and David Thatcher, gunner-engineer. "Without realizing it, I had picked my crew. . . ." The crews, swelled to 140 men, crowded the Operations Office to hear Major James Doolittle: "If you men have any idea that this isn't the most dangerous thing you've ever been on, don't even start this training period...
...Roundabout is Straightaway. Those who attend Presidential press conferences know May Craig as the small, pert woman who always gets to the front row, always asks deft, roundabout questions in a far-from-timid voice. When President Roosevelt's reticence in disclosing his Third Term plans had the U.S. in a dither, May noticed that some of his naval prints had been removed from the conference-room walls. Instead of asking the direct Third...
Hurray for the Navy Supply Corps School (Harvard Branch)! It has been discovered in a roundabout way that student morale officers (both M and F) were busy planning social affairs, but as far as anyone could find out for a long time, their net accomplishment seemed to be the cultivation of a lovely acquaintanceship with each other. Scuttlebutt was rife on the subject of who was going to entertain whom in the very hear future when on Monday evening the matey came by to ask "All secure?" and "Are you going to the tea dance to be given...