Word: unitized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Backing up pitcher Wallace, who finished last term with a record of four wins, three losses, and a tie, averaging 7.6 strikeouts per game, will be southpaw Sid Greeley, who pitched a no-hitter against the ASTP unit last term, and right-hander Jim Knowles. Both these men worked for the B team during the spring...
...losses are compensated somewhat by the acquisition of some very promising new material. A newcomer to the Harvard V-12 unit, but nevertheless an eligible man for competition this summer is Bill Murray, champion javelin thrower from Holy Cross. Also in the V-12 is Walter Harwood, a pole vaulter from Phillips Exeter Academy...
Lili Marlene (Crown Film Unit; Universal), like many popular soldier songs, is far from martial. Its words (which are sung by a lonely girl and her lonely sentry sweetheart) were written in Hamburg in 1923. Its trivial, contagious tune† was made in the Germany of 1938. It was given its drawling lilt in a Berlin cabaret, by a Swedish singer named Lala Andersen (played by comely Pat Hughes), who is now in a concentration camp. (Reason: she wrote in a letter, "All I want is to get out of this horrible country...
Poles, Czechs, Yugoslavs, Hungarians, Italians, Belgians, Croats and onetime soldiers of Russia-Turkomans, Cossacks, Tartars, Armenians and Georgians. A unit of Axis Russians under White Russian Lieut. General Andrei A. Vlas-sov was reported swaggering around Vichy France with German uniforms, long sabres and red Cossack fur caps...
Lloyds offered 33-to-1 against any newsman's bet that he would be killed. But professionally imaginative correspondents took little comfort from these odds, or from such grim expressions of goodwill as were offered by the commanding officer of the assault unit to which A. P.'s lank, drawling Don Whitehead was assigned; Said the C.O.: "We are ready to help you. . . . The people at home won't know what is happening unless you are given information and I want them to know. ... If you're wounded, we'll take care...