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Mark Fish '94, who delivered the traditionallycomic Ivy Oration, told the collegiate fairy taleof Princess Sue (as in summa cum laude)whose demanding father, King Harvard opposed herrelationship with one socalled Sir Cumference...
...battles are remarkable for their chaos: at Normandy the deafening noise, sudden explosions, invisible gunfire and jagged beach obstacles turned a carefully orchestrated plan into a thousand extemporaneous fragments. And still, the plan worked. At Gold, Juno and Sword beaches a force drawn mostly from Lieut. General Sir Miles Dempsey's British Second Army, and including a Canadian division and Free French, Polish and Dutch troops, moved steadily onto the sand and into the countryside. On the western end at Utah Beach, the U.S. 4th Division waded ashore under protective naval fire and linked up with the paratroopers...
...made the coalition work, and some of his ablest and most loyal deputies were British. But the two top British generals -- Sir Bernard Montgomery, who commanded the Allied ground forces on D-day, and his boss, Chief of the Imperial General Staff Sir Alan Brooke -- ridiculed Eisenhower and conspired against him, sometimes with Churchill's compliance. Brooke and Montgomery argued that Ike was "no real director of thought, plans, energy or direction." Montgomery told Brooke: "He knows nothing whatever about how to make war or to fight battles. He should be kept away from all that business if we want...
...piece battle of the sort he was expected to win. As he remained at a standstill week after week, Churchill was worried that Normandy would turn into a replay of the ghastly trench warfare of World War I. Many senior officers, including Eisenhower's British deputy, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, thought Montgomery should be either forced to attack or fired. Some Americans suspected Montgomery was trying to conserve his strength and let U.S. units take the casualties...
...August, Eisenhower opened a series of discussions on future strategy with Montgomery, the British general's Chief of Staff, Major General Sir Francis de Guingand, and Bradley. The talks turned into a bitter, almost unending debate over whether to carry the attack forward on a broad or narrow front. The Allied Expeditionary Force was about to drive on into Germany right up to the Rhine. After bringing units and equipment back up to strength there, Eisenhower said, he would launch a "sustained and unremitting advance against the heart of the enemy country...