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Emceed by S-O Richard Breen, the show included a skit by an unknown radio expert, who explained the mysteries of how to oscillate waves, with blackboard drawings to match. He was followed on the all-star bill by Bos'n Pen land giving a bewildered account of a baseball game in "the bloomin' yonkee stadium...
Vichy's Navy was also an unknown quantity. Unhappily for Vichy, most of its Navy was at: 1) Dakar, 1,500 miles southwest of Casablanca; 2) Toulon, France's base 400 miles north of Algiers. The battleship Richelieu, three light cruisers, several destroyers and some submarines at Dakar did not figure in the initial defense. At Toulon were the battleships Strasbourg, Dunkerque (repaired after its shelling by the British in 1940) and Provence (also damaged but repaired), probably seven cruisers, 25 destroyers, 27 submarines and one seaplane carrier (the Commandant Teste). Axis reports said Toulon naval units...
...Excluding recent casualties in the Solomons, New Guinea, North Africa and elsewhere, and an unknown number of Commonwealth Army troops lost in the Philippines...
...provide the facts and the interpretation. Dr. Paul Sweezy '32 clears up the fog which has hindered American understanding of the issues involved in the Indian plea for independence. Except for a failure to consider the complex caste system, Dr. Sweezy's survey is a concise summary of largely unknown facts about Britain's tragic failure to her largest dependency...
Columbia and Penn are unknown quantities and both have mediocre teams. Not much is known of Army and Navy's strength, but neither should be considered a threat. This is the fourth Heptagonal meet so far. In 1939, first year of the competition, Captain Penn Tuttle's Crimson harriers tied for first with Cornell...