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Under the Spartan direction of Coach Harriet Clarke, who thinks "Harvard men are sissies," over 100 girls ply the river twice a week for their required athletic credits. In their only boat, reported to have been christened with real champagne recently, about four shifts a day push off from the Browne and Nichols boat house, which has been leaned them for the fall...
Some of the businessmen who will attend: Walter S. Montgomery, president of Spartan Mills, Spartansburg, S.C. (cotton goods); Meyer Kestnbaum, executive vice president and treasurer of Hart Schaffner & Marx; Noble A. Cathcart, assistant to the president of Crowell-Collier Publishing Co.; Roy E. Larsen, president of Time Inc.; Byron Gray, president of International Shoe Co.; H. Leslie Atlass, vice president of Columbia Broadcasting System; Joseph Hazen, vice president of Warner Bros. Also represented is labor by A.F. of L.'s Arnold Zander, C.I.O.'s Richard Deveraux...
...Only by utter physical destruction or utter exhaustion can they be defeated. That is what we are up against. Too long have we nurtured the illusion that the Japanese is an insignificant person. . . . The Japanese is physically small, but he is sturdy. . . . He is half starved, but he is Spartan. . . . He is a clever and dangerous enemy. His will to conquer is utterly ruthless, utterly cruel and utterly blind to any of the values which make up our civilization. The only way to stop that will is to destroy it. If you fail-please mark my words-you pass into...
...evident that Dictator Franco was still trying to get some sort of political unity in a land where millions still hate him and the men who stand with him. His greatest problem has been to try to reconcile the Falange and the Catholic Church. The Falange, preaching Spartan morals, worker syndicates and Fascist ideology, has fought with the church over early child training and with business interests fearing leftism. At the same time the Falange has tangled with militarists who say they won the war and have a winner's right to rule, and with Monarchists who want Spanish...
Reinforcements reached Burma last week. They were Chinese reinforcements: thousands of war-hardened soldiers, whose officers generally scorned the markings of rank, shared their men's Spartan fare and, in their tattered uniforms, looked like the lowest private. Many of the soldiers bore U.S. weapons. Quickly, with the British and Indian troops who had retired from Rangoon, they formed a new defense line across central Burma...