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When President Conant rode into University Hall two years ago like Paul Revere, keen observers predicted a Harvard Revolution. They were right. Returning graduates will find that the modern Yankee has won decisively at Bunker Hill and Saratoga and that another Yorktown is only a few years distant...
...JUSTICE CARDOZO-Joseph P. Pollard-Yorktown Press ($3). A digest of the important decisions of a liberal Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court...
...seventh-grade history class wrote, edited, hand-printed a newspaper made up from the big news stories of the Revolutionary War. Headlines: DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE IS SIGNED; WASHINGTON CAPTURES PRINCETON; CORNWALLIS SURRENDERS AT YORKTOWN. A geography class made a great map of the world, pinned the day's news stories on their points of origin...
...citizens." From Miami, where Legion politicians had already lined up a third of the organization in a Bonus bloc, National Commander Edward A. Hayes cracked back: "I cannot agree." Mrs. Roosevelt flew right back to Washington as soon as the ceremonies were over. The President & friends drove to Yorktown, boarded the Sequoia for a weekend cruise up Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac...
...warships to be built in private yards, payment for which will come out of the $238,000,000 public works fund allocated to the Navy (TIME, Aug. 14). He also named some of the new craft as follows: Vincennes (heavy cruiser), Brooklyn, Savannah, Nashville, Philadelphia (light cruisers), Yorktown, Enterprise (aircraft carriers), Porpoise, Pike, Shark, Tarpon (sub-marines...