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From along the banks of the Charles, they will proceed, slightly depleted in ranks, to Sanders Theatre on Sunday afternoon and to the New England Mutual Hall in Boston on Monday night, all three times under the direction of G. Wallace Woodworth, Associate Professor of Music. A select group of 60 will make the last two appearances...
...Alaska Scouts grew from a nucleus of four hand-picked infantrymen. Organized a month before Pearl Harbor, they remain a small and select outfit. A few Scouts are Aleuts (see cut, third from right), Indians, or half-breeds. Some, like Larry ("Diamond Jim") Beloff (fourth from right), who operates a gold mine, are oldtimers in Alaska. But most are from the States, are principally Westerners who went to Alaska when they were adventurous boys. There is even one Scout from Brooklyn...
After the Harvard intramural program gets going, the 4-platoon Specialists League will select an all-star group to represent our section of Harvard-at-war. Meanwhile, the aforementioned 1st Platoon (also known as the Left Bank Chapter of the Charles River Tombstone Carvers' and Trolley Motormen's Marching and Chowder Association, Especially Marching) is currently leading the Specialists League by virtue of having whaled the blithering daylights out of each of the other three clubs last week...
...select 21-piece nucleus of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, directed by Hernard Z gave a program this week, flavored on the modern side in contrast to the all-Mozart program of last week. The opening and closing selections--both 20th century arrangements of 18th century compositions--furnished an interesting contrast between the idioms of the two centuries, and between different methods of arrangement. adaptation of a harpsichord suite by Dominico Scarlatti left the original melody and harmony unaltered, merely adding drum, tambourine, triangle, and xylophone to the traditional 18th century orchestra. Even those additions did not alter the character...
Administering the program is the Training Division of the Bureau of Naval Personnel. The Bureau, through Commander Charles Wesley Shilling, M.C., U.S.N., a submarine doctor since the early days of escape training, set up the machinery to select the right men for the new ships, and to pick the best men for such special tasks as lookout duty...