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...Wood was a major at the War College in Washington when the Corps of Engineers decided to establish a Negro regiment last summer. All of his officers are white; all of them are 30 or younger. (In the U.S. Army, Negro regiments get picked officers, and officers generally vie for assignment to them.) His 1,250 privates and noncoms are Negroes, mostly from the South. Together they have made the 41st a slambang outfit which has supplied the training cadres for 14 other engineer regiments. In all, some 3,300 Negro recruits have gone through Joe Wood's mill...
Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, who, as the British Royal Navy's Commander in Chief in the Mediterranean, has earned more fame in World War II than any other Admiral, has a peacetime rival in his younger brother, Alan Gordon Cunningham. Sir Andrew and Alan vie in growing the best flowers on their Hampshire estate, in catching the biggest fish, in telling the tallest tales. They even have rival dogs-Sir Andrew a Scotty, Alan an Airedale. Last week the younger Cunningham turned up as a rival in the honors of war as well: as Lieut. General Cunningham, commander...
Nine teams besides Harvard are entering the tournament, in which the Crimson will probably find itself in a better position to vie for top honors than at the Dartmouth Carnival two weeks ago because McGill and the Norwegian Air Force are not represented this time...
...into the first five until the Williams match. Marvin's rise up the ladder was not an easy one because there was a collection of prize Sophomores and much improved upperclassmen barring the way. Gene Nickerson and Sonny Lyell, a pair of Seniors, had come from nowhere to vie with Galen Felt for number one ranking. Nickerson's rise was of the story book variety. Infantile paralysis cost him the use of his right arm so he took up squash left-handed. Last season he was number ten; last week he was number one in the Princeton match, giving famed...
...wheat markets alternately boiled and froze with rumors. The spring wheat crop in a dozen granger States was almost ready to harvest. It was the season of the private guesstimators, who multiply rainfall by wind damage, divide by brigades of bugs, and sometimes pull figures out of the air, vie with each other in predicting the size of the crop. Meanwhile agents of the U. S. Crop Reporting Board were scouting, sampling and interviewing throughout the wheat belt, getting the cold dope from the farms. Last week, behind locked and guarded doors in Washington, the Board added and weighed these...