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Reporter-in-Chief. The man who two years ago sold the idea of soldier-correspondents to the Führer is their Berlin commander: burly, affable Lieut. Colonel Hasso von Wedel. No bureaucratic propaganda official is Colonel von Wedel. A brilliant officer, he has spent 25 of his 41 years in the German Army...
Born in Pomerania, son of an Army officer, Wedel went to cadet school at 15, was the youngest lieutenant to volunteer for service at the front in World War I. He went through the war unscratched, was kept as a member of Germany's elite postwar General Staff. Almost as corpulent as Göring (from years spent sitting behind a desk at headquarters), Wedel has the same talent for organization. Like Göring, he drinks vast quantities of beer, eats gargantuan meals...
...Reviewing the Polish Campaign in the current U. S. Infantry Journal, Lieut. Col. Hasso von Wedel of the German General Staff gave the total number of anti-tank guns captured with the Polish Army as 120. In any well-equipped modern army, each division has at least 70 antitank guns...
...Sweden and Norway, and only one was royal, Princess Ingrid, only daughter of Swedish Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf. Fröken Irmelin Nansen, daughter of Polar Explorer Fridtjof Xansen, was Norway's premier bridesmaid. The others: Swedish, Elsa Steuch, Alfhild Ekelund, Madeleine Carleson; Norwegian, Ranghild Fearnley, Elizabeth Broch. Wedel Jarlsberg. Froken Jarlsberg is the daughter of the great Court Chamberlain, and Froken Ekelund's father was the late fabulously rich Swedish industrialist. Gunnar Ekelund. The pale and puffy blue stuff of which all eight dresses were made was the gift of Princess Martha, but the dressmaking...
...following unassigned ushers will report at 6.10 to Mr. Gordon at the Marshall Newell Gate: H. E. Friedman '16, Henry Goldberger '16, M. C. Rees '18, D. D. Harris '16, J. E. Rogers '15, C. S. Fleming '15, R. S. Milton '18, A. McDonald 2G., T. Wedel 1G., W. R. Dameron 1G., E. F. Folley '16, W. H. Gardner...