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Well-equipped for what? Certainly not for what happened a scant five months after his return, when the housing of the 24th Division became suddenly not only poor but deplorable...
...Willing Yankee maidens were not at fault; they signed up by the hundreds. The trouble started when the New York Herald howled that Mercer's maidens were headed for Northwest brothels. Reluctantly, two-thirds of his charges saved their reputations by backing out; Mercer managed to get a scant hundred of them on the boat. Because some deserted at San Francisco, an even smaller number actually got to Seattle. Mercer married one of his charges and quickly went out of the importing business forever...
While the dust of the Chinese civil war was settling before the bemused eyes of the State Department, the U.S. paid scant attention to the Indo-Chinese struggle. It seemed largely a local affair between the French and their subjects. Since the dust has settled in China, Asia's Communism is thrusting southward. Indo-China stands first on the path to Singapore, Manila and the Indies...
...basis of comparative scores the Crimson holds a scant advantage. Yale beat Brown, 11 to 7, while the Yardlings won by only 8 to 5. However, Dartmouth beat both teams, pounding the Blues, 8 to 4, while barely nipping the Crimson...
There can be little doubt that Harvard Square is considered a lucrative market by the higher-ups in local booking. The operator of a highly-legitimate pool and billiard hall on Holyoke Street was approached by five men "with propositions" in the scant three months that his place operated this winter. Three of these men offered to help him pay his rent every month if he would let them meet bettors there from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. every afternoon. The other "businessmen" wanted to buy out the place and use it as a front. They offered $8000, which, although...