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...have seen a minor American diplomat recently accredited to a small Balkan State moving homeward over a crowded road, with 13 suitcases and a Hungarian wolfhound half the size of a Shetland pony. By some strange freak of international diplomatic courtesy the 13th suitcase and the hound had priority over fighting men equally anxious to get along in the westward stream...
...Moose Mountain downhill trail this morning, Captain Finn Ferner of Harvard tied Knowlton of New Hampshire for first. Reid was seventh, and Ames 13th...
...addition the Varsity and Freshman basketball and swimming meets with Yale, previously set for February 14, are now planned for the 13th. There will be no change in the date for the Harvard-Yale track meet, however, which will take place as expected...
...13th day of Wake's hopeless, gallant fight. For the first time since the Japanese had struck on the morning of Dec. 8, the bright, pitiless Pacific sky was dulled. Over that tiny speck of sand on the 167th meridian east of Greenwich the clouds hung mercifully low. Those Marines of the original 378 who were still on their feet worked with tight-lipped earnestness against the next attack...
Naturally enough, Russian spokesmen beamed and spoke up. They claimed that General von Kleist had thrown away nine divisions: the 13th, 14th and 16th Panzer divisions; the 60th motorized; the Viking and Adolf Hitler Leibstandarte SS divisions; the 76th, 94th and 97th Infantry divisions. It was said that Commander in Chief Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch had gone to the southern front to help put a stop to the rout. But the figure on casualties claimed to have been suffered by all these divisions was 23,000, the normal strength of only one and a half infantry divisions. This would...