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...fighting man, General Brereton can appreciate and understand the fighting men of the Indian Army. There are wiry, highland Gurkhas, who once each year must cut a wild goat in half with one swoop of a broad kukri; black-bearded Sikhs, whose proud name stands not for race or religion, but for a blood brotherhood of warriors; turbaned Pathans (pronounced pet-ahns). Indians like to quote the current figures on their Army: 1,000,000 men, "well equipped...
Clean Sweep. In Shutesbury, Mass., the Army at one swoop drafted the chairman of the Selectmen, the chairman of the Board of Public Welfare, the principal of the Center School, the chairman of the Board of Health, the director of old-age assistance, the chairman of the Civilian Defense Committee, the president of the Teachers Association, a trustee of the library, the library's janitor, the school department's janitor, the town identification officer, and a voters' registrar: all the same man, Henry Dihlman...
Enemy ships could swoop in and shell New York; enemy planes could drop bombs on war plants in Detroit; enemy troops could attack Alaska...
ITHACA, N. Y., Feb. 18--Harvard's low flying basketball team took another swoop tonight as it dropped a 40 to 34 decision to Cornell, which moved into a tie for the league load with Dartmouth by virtue...
...rabbits out of it, last week pulled out a rabbit and threw him into the brier patch of Civilian Defense. The fierce-looking rabbit: hawk-faced, hawk-eyed James McCauley ("Chink") Landis, Dean of Harvard Law School. A precocious Princetonian and one of the keenest legal eaglets ever to swoop from Harvard Law School, Dean Landis was an early Brain Truster, as SEC chairman presided over a whipped Wall Street...