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High Hopes. Last month Harry Truman officially continued Personal Representative Taylor's mission. Seven major denominations in annual conventions or assemblies promptly put themselves on record for Taylor's recall. Finally, last week, Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, president of the Federal Council of Churches, led a ten-man interdenominational delegation to the White House and presented the President with a document embodying the resolutions, as well as 30-odd more from other conferences and denominational groups...
...attack on Corregidor came literally out of the blue. One half of the 503rd Parachute Regiment boarded its planes on Mindoro Island. As their transports sailed over the ½-sq.-mi. head of pollywog-shaped Corregidor, the paratroopers jumped in ten-man teams, one at a time, for almost two hours. Most came down on "Topside," the western plateau of the fortress islet, but some were carried by the wind over the cliffs into South Channel, where PT boats scurried to pick them up. The sky troopers took most of Corregidor's remaining guns from the rear...
...bomber crash near the Continental Divide in Colorado, four of the ten-man crew had been killed. Two survivors, less seriously injured, had walked 14 hours before they found help. Soon a bomber, with an Army doctor aboard, was on its way to the rocky ledge where the four injured men lay. The doctor first dropped a parachute load of supplies from the circling bomber, then jumped himself. He landed in a tree, fell 20 ft., but scrambled up unhurt. When the main rescue party arrived (by land) nearly four hours later, the patients had been fed, bandaged, drugged...
Other executive titles were given to Richard G. Axt of Upper Marlboro, Md. and Kirkland House, and Robert A. Fisher of Birmingham, Mich, and Lowell House, who are to be secretary and treasurer respectively, while the rest of the ten-man committee was assigned to other duties in preparing for the 1946 dance...
Election of a ten-man Freshman Jubilee Committee will officially get under way today and continue through tomorrow, as '46 men deposit vote slips in ballot boxes placed in key points all over the College, naming fellow class members to one of the most honored of Freshman committees...