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Though few U. S. citizens can remember or believe it, tug of war was once the most popular of intercollegiate sports. One who can still feel it in his calves is Malcolm Kenneth Gordon, old St. Paul's boy, now headmaster of Malcolm Gordon School (for boys) at Garrison, N. Y. In last month's Alumni Horae, St. Paul's alumni bulletin, Mr. Gordon (St. Paul's '87) tautly remembered this forgotten sport...
...earnest sympathy of Pope Pius XII; that his sister, Marie-Jose, married Crown Prince Umberto of Italy-possible checkrein to keep Benito Mussolini from jumping in on Hitler's side; that his late wife was the King of Sweden's popular niece, which is one more tug at Sweden's fearful heart; that Franklin Roosevelt called himself Leopold's "old friend" and sent a message saying the U. S. people were shocked and angry. Now it mattered that King Leopold retained Lieut. General Henri Jean Charles Eugene Denis as Defense Minister when, last year, he reached...
shipbuilders who can build any ship from a trawler to a battlewagon, from a tug to a liner, there are only three...
Last week-end, the Crimson track team gave a last desperate tug at its belt, gritted its teeth, and struck out for the hills. It was heading for Hanover and a dual meet with the Indians--its man power a mockery of Harvard's real running-strength. There had even been suggestions that the squad call off the meet, so low had team-morale sunk, so poor was the performance predicted for a half-manned team. But the squad decided to go ahead and do its best. When they returned victorious, the trackmen were almost as surprised as the sports...
About 3 a.m. a tug sighted them, and they were rescued...