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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attacked. And now, if ever faith was vindicated, Anthony Eden's faith in Sir Archibald Wavell certainly was. In the startling conquest of Cyrenaica, he had proved himself the best general the British have produced in the entire war. When war in Africa began, Archie Wavell was virtually unknown outside his profession. By the time Bengasi fell, he was world-famous...
Last week the New Leader emerged briefly from obscurity. One dark night its offices were rifled by unknown footpads...
...Unknown to western Cambridge, M. I. T. has become nearly the most Harvard-conscious school in the nation, rivaling even Radcliffe and Yale. Each September "Freshman week" is crowded with couplets and gags about the Harvard man and the Farmer's Daughter, and new students are imbued as thoroughly as possible with this most essential of Technology traditions. Currently the Institute boys claim to have boycotted a young instructor who had turned out to be a Harvard A.B. Every student organization joins in propaganda for the one-way scrap; popular professors begin their courses with a stock Harvard joke...
...Berlin in 1930, he accepted a five-year contract to make three pictures at a salary of $1,000 a week. This was automatically broken after the Nazi coup d'etat. His last film, titled "Thirteen Valises of Mr. O. F.," was made with Hedy Lamarr, then a comparatively unknown actress called Hedy Kiesler. Although he was only nine years old at the time, Marc says he thought Hedy was a "very beautiful woman, though a trifle too exotic...
What the Yale team will look like when it comes to town next Saturday for the last game of the season, is an unknown quantity, but the Hoddermen should stand more than a fair chance of coming out on top. The Elis have a strong first line, which should push Woody Redmond, Marc Beebe, and Dave Burton to the limit, but the rest of their aggregation is below par, weak in defense and the nets...