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Dean Bender's vandalism ultimatum failed to halt the best laid plans of 16 Crimson boosters who returned triumphant from New Haven yesterday to announce that a 25-foot-high white H now overlooks the Eli stronghold from towering East Rock...
...willful destruction of Yale students or impromptu decoration of the Eli stronghold over the coming weekend will provoke swift retribution from University Hall, warned Wilbur J. Bender '27, Dean of the College, yesterday...
...Baptist World Alliance represents some 15,000,000 Baptists in 62 countries. Last week the Alliance moved its headquarters from London, where it was founded in 1905, to Washington. Though the U.S. (with 14,208,295) is the Baptists' stronghold, the Alliance headquarters was kept in London because, says Dr. Edward Hughes Pruden of Washington's First Baptist Church: "We figured that Europe, with its minority groups, needed more guidance and leadership." Actually, the Alliance has been operating from the U.S. on a temporary basis since the war began...
...Their stronghold was Texas and their Joan of Arc was a Dallas housewife named Mrs. Bobbie Woodward. Mrs. Woodward, 24, and mother of two, was no Ingrid Bergman. But she had a nice pair of legs and a stubborn spirit. She saw no reason why she should hide her legs under long skirts, why her draftsman husband should be put to the expense of buying her a new wardrobe, or why the women of Texas should be pushed around by a bunch of Paris and New York designers...
...effect, the Dutch had won control of most of the Indies. Last week, with an amphibious stroke, they chopped big Sumatra in two, seized oilfields and rich rubber and coffee plantations. Republicans still held south central Java. With all major Javanese ports in Dutch hands it was an isolated stronghold...