Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Formosa, General Sun commands 300,000 troops, is supported by Nationalist China's air force and navy. In numbers, the force seems imposing, but to TIME Correspondent Wilson Fielder last week General Sun frankly conceded that he has a tough job of reorganization ahead of him. Only about half of Sun's troops will take his orders; the others feel themselves bound to generals who reject Sun's authority. Actually, Sun would prefer a smaller, more compact army than he now commands. Unreliable generals have been sacked right & left without regard to traditional face-saving niceties...
...President Woodrow Wilson of Princeton University made what he called a "heretical" proposal to bis trustees: abolish the campus eating clubs which for a quarter of a century had flourished proudly along Prospect Avenue. They were contrary to the "democratic spirit," said Wilson; they had become a "side show" which seemed "to be trying to control the performance in the main tent...
...protest. The sophomores were infringing upon the clubs' "basic right of selectivity." But there were plenty of other clubmen who disagreed: 217 said they would themselves resign unless the sophomores had their way. By week's end, the sophomores seemed to be winning the battle that Woodrow Wilson lost. Said Chairman William Wallace of the Undergraduate Interclub Committee: "The clubs will try their best to fit their election machinery to the sophomore...
Coach Floyd Wilson's Yardlings started hitting the basket too late against the Eagles and couldn't close a ten point deficit. But Tech, which finished 34 points behind a Boston University team which the Yardlings beat, 56 to 48, is unlikely to build up any lead over the freshmen...
Probable starting freshman lineups: HARVARD MIT Myers lf Wilson Urdan rf Ballentine Lionette c Wilmot Lemay lg Manderson Judson rg Marciano