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...throwing their arms and stores away, their retreat "covered" by Norwegians, whose Colonel Ole Getz complained bitterly, and surrendered to the Germans, when he found that the Allies had left him to fight with an open flank and rear. (The British said Colonel Getz's superior, General Otto Ruge, understood their plan, went with them.) Furiously pursuing German airmen raked and bombarded the launches loading on Namsos' concatenated waterfront. They dumped rack after rack of bombs at transports and warships steaming away from shore. How many boatloads sank in the inferno the Nazis poured on them...
...Gudbrandsdal, after the main Nazi power-drive had plowed through Lillehammer, the Norse and British who escaped capture there fell back on Allied reinforcements for a stand where the valley narrows at Otta and Kvam, only 35 miles south of Dombås. Norwegian General Otto Ruge rallied his men with this message: "Now the time for withdrawing has passed," he said. "Stand by and keep together and we shall fight the battle to victory...
...groundling has wondered about the sensations of a parachute jumper, particularly in that awful, breathless moment when he drops from the plane, before the 'chute billows open. Those sensations have often been described in words, now they have been described in photographs. Three months ago two Germans, Willi Ruge and one Boettcher, made their first jumps from separate planes at Staaken Airdrome, Berlin, each armed with a small, specially designed automatic camera to photograph the other's descent and to take self-photographs during the jump. These pictures were printed six weeks ago in the Illustrated London News...
...third. A large banner will also be given to the school scoring the largest number of points. The events will be horizontal bars, side-horse, flying rings, club-swinging, parallel-bars, and tumbling. The judges are to be Dr. Carl L. Schrader, gymnastic instructor of Hemenway Gymnasium, E. W. Ruge 3L., former captain of the gymnastic team at Yale, J. R. Morton '13, captain of the University gymnastic team...
...judges will be Dr. Carl L. Schrader, physical instructor at the Gymnasium; J. R. Morton '13, who captained the 1913 University team; and E. W. Ruge 3L., a former Yale captain. The following men have already entered their names as competitiors: H. F. Ballantine '15, H. R. Bechtel '17, E. A. Benner '18, M. Blanchard '18, A. B. Bruce '15, F. M. Bullard '16, R. L. Dodge '17, J. M. French '17, R. G. Gibson '15, H. B. Griffiths '18, W. E. Hicks '18, J. L. Hubbard '18, L. S. Hyde '18, M. H. Reynolds '15, W. E. Sullivan...