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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mental patients, make its externals pleasing to the eye. But any Oregonian who knows enough to make comparisons is shocked by the interior of this mid-Victorian (1883) Bedlam. Its 3,000 patients are 1,000 more than facilities properly can care for. Two toilets, seatless and of vintage unknown, must serve 60 men; 62 women share one metal wash basin...
...unknown factor was the true nature of the Germans' winter plans. If, for example, they had deliberately withdrawn troops from Stalingrad's rear toward the Don and prepared for a stand there, the Russian advances might not have been a complete shock to Hitler. The facts remained that the Red Army had shown its best offensive generalship to date, that it had punctured the Germans' Don-Volga line, and that the battle was not yet over...
Among the lettermen that will be missing this year are Captain and guard Bud Finegan and forward Ed Buckley who are both in the Marines. Ed Rothschild is in the Law School now and Joe Romano, whose where-abouts are unknown, has a brother in the Class of '46 who is on the Freshman-Jayvee squad. Bumy Hadley, Bill Snyder, Art Scully, and Jock Torgan, although all still in school, have not yet reported for practice for various reasons, while Billy Webber is in the Navy, and Chick Lutz is in the Army...
...here. May He keep us strong in the courage that will win the war, and may He impart to us the wisdom and the vision that we shall need for true victory in the peace which is to come. ..." He stood at silent attention before the tomb of the Unknown Soldier; a bugler sounded taps; a cold autumn wind scattered the notes down the valley that leads to the Potomac...
Died. Joseph Francis Anthony Hagan ("Philadelphia Jack O'Brien"), 64, light-heavyweight champion of the early 1900s; after a prostate operation; in Manhattan. He lost his ring fortune speculating in real estate, turned to bodybuilding, ran famed gyms in Philadelphia and Manhattan. Unknown in the U.S., he went to the British Isles in 1900, knocked out the British heavyweight and middleweight champs, came home in 1902 with a mighty reputation, a small fortune, 18 trunks, 72 sets of red-and-blue silk underwear, a top hat, frock coat, and a rococo vocabulary. He won the light-heavyweight championship from...