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Lone Surrender, At Fenàroa, 350 miles away, Italian General Bastico had set up the headquarters of the Third Army Corps, whose duty it is to protect the long Italian line back to the coast. In his tent last week he sat reading dispatches, wishing he were further south enjoying the fun in Addis Ababa. Up to his tent rode a bedraggled, bearded native on muleback carrying a twisted twig and a scrap of white cloth. Stiffly dismounting, the blackamoor bowed low to the ground in token of submission. It was Ras Seyoum, onetime ruler of Tigre Province...
...labor for about twelve hours only. Except for the administration of some castor oil and i c.c. of pituitrin, my activities, as obstetrician, consisted, as the word implies, in standing-by. The child was born ten minutes after the pituitrin was given, and ten minutes later, all in the tent-eleven women, the patient, and the writer-enjoyed cigarets...
When Juanita had gone around the world as far as Hawaii she stopped. There, at Waikiki Beach, she bought a tent (she calls it "Villa Petit Peep") and settled down to live until necessity or wanderlust beckoned her further...
Sent out with a patrol to Certain Death, Colman stalls for time in the tent of an Arab chieftain who turns out to have been an Oxford classmate. In a sequence which should induce Hollywood to investigate England's famed Victorian society novelist further, the Arab remarks: "You remember our soccer games? Well, we shall play soccer, on horseback. And you, ho-ho, shall be the ball...
Which the Princeton-Harvard-Yale Conference on Public Affairs pitches its tent on the Nassau campus May eighth and ninth, another link will be forged in the chain of natural interests and friendship that bind together the traditional "ivy colleges". In times of economic and social duress, with politicians and patriots scornfully hooting at the intellectual leadership of educational institutions throughout the country, the great universities are called upon more and more to take an active hand in the conduct of national affairs. By enthusiastically sponsoring the forthcoming colloquium on "Government and Economic Stability", the college newspapers wish to bear...