Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from bases in England. It is a moderately successful blend of Hollywood histrionics and actual combat films from World War II. Its producers made a sincere effort to mix the two elements. The combat footage was used as a core for the story, rather than dragged in as a touch of "realism." The all-male cast is given convincing all-male dialogue, and there is a painless minimum of comic relief. Above all, there is skillful exploitation of the fierce beauty of aerial battle photography...
...sought in creating a memorial? The feeling which should be sought is one of reflex action on the spirit of the beholder, to awaken a vital, motivating incentive to higher and nobler sacrificial patriotic living. The utilitarian type, with its appeal chiefly to the physical senses, fails completely to touch the realm of the spirit. Is there any more "practical" or more "useful" ambition than to aim to consummate a memorial so designed and so executed as to keep over before the senses of passers-by the devotion to duty of those we seek to honor...
...Touch Football--Won outright by Kirkland. Kirkland, 115; Eliot, 100; Leverett, 85; Adams, 66 2/3; Lowell, 66 2/3; Winthrop, 66 2/3; Dunster, 55; Dudley...
...this week. Helen Duker '49 will be AA chairman in this sport. Unless an unusual number of girls turns out to practice with the foils, the club will combine with the advanced fencing class which meets Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 2 p.m. All girls interested should get in touch with Miss Duker in Cabot...
...Drohan, ace diver, graduates this February before the Yale meet, and diving coach Bernie Kelly is working with Win Briggs. Briggs weighs about 35 pounds more than Drohan and showed excellent form as a sophomore before he was laid up with a touch of rheumatic fever. With his extra weight, Briggs may very adequately replace Drohan, and possibly surpass him some...