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Midwest. Football's main tent this year is the Midwest. Experts have picked Minnesota for the team of the year; Indiana's Billy Hillenbrand for the rookie of the year, Notre Dame's Frank Leahy for the coach of the year...
Harvard and Yale men mingled indiscriminately and the tents always contained at least one out of the four tent mates from each college. The 115 men formed a battalion which was divided into three batteries according to height. Curiously enough the Harvard men towered over the Elis in height, and Battery "A", "The Giants", was composed mostly of Harvard men while Battery "C". "The Ggnomes", was strongly pro-Bulldog...
Hitler was willing to talk to Mussolini a long time alone in a tent. Escorted by armored cars and mobile anti-aircraft guns, they motored over vast stretches of the battle line, visited the intense German Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, encountered wrecked villages, Russian war debris, black mud where soldiers had to push their car. One day they flew down to the Ukraine to see Italian troops attacking Russia under the command of German Field Marshal von Rundstedt. For a while they shared the soldiers' soup and black bread, allowed themselves to be photographed by respectful infantrymen. Flying...
Milgrim: Near East inspiration, with harem skirts, "tent pole" silhouettes, camel driver's tunics...
...Belcher Islanders the trial was a sort of game. The defendants greeted the judicial party when the schooner anchored, shook hands all around and helped set up the tent. And because the Eskimos love the comfort of the white men's jails, the verdicts were satisfactory. The two Messiahs, Sala and Ouyerack, were convicted of manslaughter, sentenced to two years apiece. One disciple was sentenced to a year's hard labor, three others were released. With the prisoners when the schooner sailed back to Moose Factory was Mina. The jury had decided that she was insane...