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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today is the last day on which Seniors graduating in September may have their pictures taken for the Harvard Album. The photographer will be in the Adams House Upper Common Room from 9 to 12 and 1 to 5 o'clock...
North from Tulagi lie Jap bases which the U.S. and Australian forces will need soon to clean out: all the airdromes, troop centers and anchorages in the upper Solomons, within easy range of the Marines' southern toehold. The job even then would not be finished. For the Japs' great concentration point at Rabaul in New Britain would still be dangerously close-660 miles from Tulagi, 200 from Bougainville. The Japs would even then still be in upper New Guinea, a scant 350 miles from Rabaul. Above Port Moresby last week, an Australian force (with some U.S. troops...
When the U.S. is able to occupy some of the outlying islands, Truk undoubtedly will be subjected to air assault. Naval and land assault is another matter. The Navy may prefer to move against the upper Solomons, New Britain and New Guinea to the southwest, against Makin and other Gilbert Islands in the southeast, and thus finally to immobilize Truk and bottle the Japs within their bits of heaven...
...this week the photographer will be in the Adams House Upper Common Room, where the 150 members of the Class of 1943 who are graduating in September, as well as all of the Juniors and Seniors in Adams House, will be photographed at ten-minute intervals...
Every once in a while there comes a movie which everyone sees and praises to the sky, and such a movie is "Mrs. Miniver." It is the story of an upper middle class English family transformed from the security of the peaceful country town to the most harrowing experiences that total war can bring. Yet it is more than this; it is the symbol of the suffering that every family exposed to be brutality of Nazi bombing has had to go through. In its simplicity and restraint, it is one of the most successful portrayals of human nature that...