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...Allied offensive was "launched and conducted with absolute coordination. .. . The enemy was prepared and equipped for this attack in the smallest detail...
Harvard University began its three hundred and ninth academic year Wednesday with a total of 1,284 civilian students, the smallest enrollment since 1875. In addition, there are now some 5,000 Navy officers and enlisted men, and some 1,000 Army trainees, in the special training schools at the University...
...sweltering Tercentenary Theatre yesterday Harvard conferred 251 degrees, the smallest number since 1875, before a crowd estimated at over 10,000. Only 92 of the degrees went to graduating seniors, the smallest number since 1861; a total of 62 received A.B. degrees, and 31 S.B. The only summa cum lande is Konrad Wise, of Reverly Hills, California, who received highest honors in classical literature...
...Civil Aeronautics Board, the smallest U.S. Government agency, last week took the biggest stride forward yet made in Federal postwar planning. The repercussions rattled the windows in airline offices all over the U.S. and shook those of every foreign embassy in Washington. Handsome, hard-working CABoss Lloyd Welch Pogue, 44, caused the sensation...
...Nature. The master of this titanic effort is a generally affable, obviously brainy, 53-year-old Midwestern American. As a professional soldier he is distinctly the command-and-staff rather than the warrior type. Ike Eisenhower never took a platoon or a company into battle. The smallest military organization he has ever commanded in actual combat was the Allied Expeditionary Force that went into French North Africa in November 1942. He has no specific battle experience remotely comparable to that of Britain's Generals Montgomery and Alexander, or such U.S. generals as Bradley and Patton. What...