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Swelling its ranks as the procession wound through the Houses, the rally gathered in front of the Varsity Club to hear and cheer speeches by the great Tack Hardwick '16, three-time All-American, Dick Harlow, Don Forte, and Loren MacKinney, stellar end on last year's eleven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1000 FANS SHIVER TO CHEER CRIMSON | 11/14/1942 | See Source »

...victory rally which will get under way at 7:30 o'clock, will later gather outside the Varsity Club where the undergraduates will hear Tack Hardwick '16, former All-American tackle and one of Harvard's all-time greats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rally Sends Team To Last Tilt Here | 11/13/1942 | See Source »

...little law struck other big sparks. Ernest R. Breech, president of Bendix Aviation said, "It is the greatest deterrent to increased war production that could possibly be thought of." President Roger D. Edward of Atlas Tack dolefully wired to Senator George, "A large group of key management personnel in industry are just about ready to throw up the sponge and join the Army as buck privates." Appointed last week, a Senate subcommittee is working out an answer to the problem of giving business some end to uncertainty, some limit to the number of times a renegotiation board can reopen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: End of Uncertainty? | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

Washington, which had not been informed of the unusual award, learned about it from an A.P. dispatch, ordered Lieut. Ridout to "capture" the E forthwith. Tactfully the crestfallen lieutenant told the Globe-News that the Navy wanted its E back. Old Tack roared: "Tell 'em to send the Marines," and headed for the safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: E Is for Gene | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...Marines were busy; the lieutenant was on the pan; the wire services had spread the story. Reluctantly Old Tack pondered, then cut the E from its frame and gave it to the beaming lieutenant. Said Gene Howe: "It's only an incident, and there are no sore spots on us. The lieutenant is doing a most excellent job of recruiting and ought to have the E himself." On the bare frame which had contained the E Publisher Howe hung a mourning wreath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: E Is for Gene | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

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