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...hour later, when six junior varsity eights lined up for their three-mile race, a stiff head wind had become considerably stiffer. Before the shells had traveled 200 yards, coxswains were busy bailing. Presently the Washington boatload began slowly to sink like the orchestra in Radio City's Music Hall. Official launches scurried to the rescue, scurried on to rescue Syracuse, Columbia, California. Cornell and Navy managed to stay afloat for nearly a mile. Frantic horn-tooting and whistle-blowing finally notified them that the race had been called...
...that outlined last month by British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax: the Allies must not be swayed from their main purpose of war with Germany, but must not be unprepared if that leads to war with Russia. Le Temps swept debate aside, came out flatly for a new and stiffer attitude toward the U. S. S. R. "The friend of our enemies, Russia, is our enemy, whether we wish it or not. She should be treated as such. Why should we put up any longer with a fiction...
...boys & girls at Caney Creek get their education free. In return they must promise to return home and work among the Kentucky mountain folk. When the chosen few (the waiting list is 1,000-long) enter, girls must forswear jewelry, cosmetics, slang, high heels. For boys the rules are stiffer: no tobacco, gambling, liquor, guns or "unauthorized meetings with the opposite...
These terms were indeed stiffer than the pre-war demands. Before the war Russia asked only enough of Karelia to put Leningrad out of Finnish artillery range; she said nothing about the Laatokka region, which controls the biggest lake in Europe; and all she wanted was to lease Hanko. Said Foreign Minister Vaino Alfred Tanner, who made quite a name for himself as a phrasemaker as the week wore on: "There is no reason for the Finnish Government to occupy itself with mere talk. Let those talk who like to talk." Across the Baltic in Stockholm, Dr. Juho Paasikivi...
Steve Madey will pit his pole vaulting e'lan against Yale's Tommy Lussen for the second time this season, and the chances are that the little boy blue will be stiffer competition than he was in the Quad Meet. Don Donahue will probably meet a more self possessed Jay Shields today than the one who spilled three hurdles running for Yale in the Gardon...