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...infantry is still "Queen of Battles." But the Queen was hardly recognizable last week; she was scuttling around like a maid-of-all-work. In the incessant tug-o'-war for prestige within the Army, the cavalry, the field artillery, even the infantry were on the defensive. What had their wind up was the rapid growth, the ambitious airs of the air corps and the armored force. The Germans in conquered Europe, the British in Africa had shown what this new combat team could do-and what could happen to nations which had no team, or a poor...
...clock one night last week a long, dark green train standing in the Northern Pacific yards in Seattle quivered with the first tug of the engine, jolted a little as it gained speed, whistled as it raced toward the East. The Willkie Special was headed for home; the campaign tour that had led through the Southwest, up the Pacific Coast, was half over. The correspondents in the press lounge and the dining car, their stories already filed, argued over their Scotch & sodas-about the Third Term, the merits of Roosevelt and Willkie, the size and meaning of the crowds...
Reed's students first met their new president when he picked himself up from the mud at the losing end of the freshman-sophomore tug of war (TIME, Oct. 29, 1934). Promptly christened "Prex Dex," long-faced Dr. Keezer lived up to his unorthodox introduction. When a visiting Japanese professor left his boots outside his door in Keezer's house, "Prex Dex" blacked them himself. An ardent fisherman, he gathered Reed students in his basement for classes in fly-tying. He also brought intellectuals of all political shades to talk to the students, advertised the college so skillfully...
...through one more they do not have. In giving birth she nearly dies. As she wavers along the margin of life, Emily comes to the graveyard, sees the village dead, just as they looked in Grover's Corners. They stand in rows, quietly waiting for her. But the tug of Our Town, of life, is too strong. Emily leaves the graveyard, bringing a new life with her. Since there is no further experience for anybody in Our Town or anywhere else to have, the picture ends...
...good tug of war team of the '80s, whether in school or college," wrote onetime Tugger Gordon, "compared favorably with a well-trained crew in technique, precision and rhythm. . . . There were five men to a team. . . . The rope was about seventy-five feet long. . . . Exactly in the middle of the platform there was a red line one inch wide over which was the lever which held the rope preparatory to the 'drop' or start...