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Julian Huxley, in the current New Republic, supplies a remedy for the seemingly short-sighted wartime policy now followed by American universities. His article points out the fallacy of confining colleges to programs of military preparedness with no thought of the post-war task of helping to organize and reconstruct...
... If Captain Bligh wished to shake hands with the one that "really" was responsible for pulling [the three Navy flyers] thru, I fear it would not be "Dixon." . . . "Aldrich" was not a gabby sort, in fact, he was, and is, very quiet. . . . Another thing, he never addressed or spoke of...
The life raft bumping the waves of the Windward Passage near Haiti looked no bigger than a cork when the Catalina patrol plane first sighted it; but when Ensign Francis E. Pinter eased his ship down to 200 ft., he could make out 17 people crowded upon it. To attempt...
Bluntly last week Finance Minister James Lorimer Ilsley put the basic issues to his Nova Scotia constituents: "To vote 'no' is to vote for isolationism, and isolationism is short-sighted and inevitably fails those who adhere to it. A 'no' vote would play into the hands...
During alarms, Correspondent Jacoby's wife "filed her nails over and over again." Twice she nearly filed them to the quick. The first time was when they sighted eight Jap warships steaming parallel to them in line. But the enemy-presumably damaged ships heading home for repairs-paid no...