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...Breaks. But without the planning, and above all, without the breaks, it might have been the greatest setback to Allied arms since Dunkirk. Ship crews and assault troops alike, Morison explains, were in most cases only half-trained. When it came to combat, nine out of ten were utter greenhorns. With huge fleets committed far from home, heavy weather on D-day might have been fatal. The weather was in fact generally calm and clear, although high seas (15ft. surf) had swept the Moroccan coast almost until the morning of the landings...
Decadence & Death. English Author Malcolm Lowry, who is 38, spent the better part of the past ten years writing Under the Volcano, while roaming over half the face of the globe as tourist and merchant seaman. The setting of Under the Volcano is chiefly a run-down villa in the Mexican town of Quauhnahuac (presumably modeled on the popular Anglo-American "colony" of Cuernavaca, where Author Lowry once lived). In the villa, matching its decay with his own collapse, lives Geoffrey Firmin, onetime British vice-consul in Quauhnahuac, now a mentally tortured, helpless dipsomaniac. Upon him, one bright morning-just...
Professor Fraser has been Assistant Dean at the Business School since 1940, when he returned there after a ten-year period of business activity, during which he served as Treasurer and Director of Incorporated Investors, and later as President and Director of the Boston Fund, Inc. He was the author of several books in the field of finance, including "Finance" and "Problems in Finance." In the years from 1930 to 1940, he was active in the Republicans Party and was a delegate from Massachusetts to the National Convention...
...steeplechases which start tomorrow night will be for the News, Editorial, and Business Boards and are scheduled to last eight to ten weeks, ending before the commencement of final exams. Freshmen will be eligible for both the News and Business competitions, with first or second term Sophomores only eligible for the Editorial Board. Candidates for the now-vacant cartoonist slot will also be welcomed...
...comedy and realistic social satire, "Storm in a Teacup" is serious without being pedantic, funny without being cute. Its ingredients--poor journalist, rich girl, villainous father-seem trite only when taken from their content. Fast dialogue and expert acting fuse these elements into a picture that is still timely ten years after it was produced in England...