Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solemn silence hung over Soldier Field yesterday afternoon when the announcement was made that Captain Herman Gundlach '35, who was injured in a scrimmage on the day before, was hurt more seriously than at first expected and will be out for two weeks...
True that William Haines Lytle's famed "Antony to Cleopatra" begins "I am dying, Egypt, dying!" But Soldier-Poet Lytle (1826-1863) presumably took his cue from Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV, Sc. 15, which contains the line. More about General Lytle will appear in the Sept. 17 issue of LETTERS, a new fortnightly published by TIME, Inc. For details about LETTERS...
...Star Collegians, selected by a Chicago Tribune poll and coached by Purdue's Kizer. Northwestern's Hanley and Fordham's Crowley: a night football game which ended 0-to-0, after the Bears had been outrushed 136 yd. to 62 before a capacity crowd (80,000) in Chicago's Soldier Field...
Almost as white as the white robe he wore, Negro Actor Richard B. Harrison ("De Lawd" of The Green Pastures) sat under a spotlight before 30,000 spectators in Chicago's Soldier Field one night last week. Three blacks to one white, they were there to see and hear 0 Sing a New Song, a gigantic three-act pageant of the Negro race. The solemn words of Narrator Harrison put in motion a sight & sound spectacle that required the voices of 5,000 U. S. blacks, the wild antics of a handful of Basuto tribesmen brought from Africa...
...swear by God this holy oath: that I will give unqualified obedience to the Leader of the German Government and the German people, Adolf Hitler, as Commander-in-Chief of the Army [or Navy] and that as a courageous soldier [or sailor] I am ready at any time to place my life at stake for this oath...