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...Greece was announced. The R. A. F. was really active. Gloster Gladiator fighters patrolled over Greek cities, and bombers hit at Naples, Brindisi, Taranto and Albanian bases. The first British casualty was announced: an R. A. F. gunner, wounded in the head by what was described as a "stray bullet" from an Italian plane. British naval vessels arrived in Athens from Alexandria, carrying a few troops. Very useful in surprising and checking the Italians was a set of light anti-tank guns flown in apparently from Palestine. The British were happy to give all this, since it fitted like...
...consideration of the question of football scholarships, Harvard stands in a favored position. It has plenty of ivy and class, it has the journalistic prestige that means headlines for star performers, and it even has a vague quality known as "educational opportunities" which might attract a stray athletic now and then. On top of all these inducements Harvard has the richest alumni body and the largest financial endowment of any university in the country...
Other officials echoed this opinion and agreed that the day was exceptionally uneventful. Not a single neophyte even tried to sneak a stray mother through the line as an aid to his labors, although one lad did bring a comely feminine acquaintance into Memorial Hall and left her waiting in the east end while he went through the ceremonies...
This time however, his arrangements lacked their usual sparkle. For once, you didn't have to play them over and over again to catch stray and subtle instrumental ideas. The records were pompous and grandiose, and suffered from all the bad taste of meaningless slowing of tempos, etc. that Kostalonetz usually avoids...
...latest feature to be added is "The College Pump" which first appeared in the March 8 issue as a column "for the stray line of Harvard verse, the pleasant non-sequitur of academic observation, and the simple fragment of phrase...