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Paper or no paper, Jaakko Mikkola and Carl Olsen, who coach the '52s, both say that the outcome at Hanover will be "very close." "My golly, there's a lot of fight in those boys," Jaakko exclaims, adding that the freshmen could...
Opinion on students manners seemed to be somewhat mixed. The majority of the girls agreed that most of the freshmen were well versed in their manners. One irate fiftyish maiden bitterly attacked the '52s, claiming that "they're all messy slobs, and I'd hate to be their mothers...
...face of an impressive show of batting by the '52s, Governor Dummer had to replace its pitcher before the end of the first inning. But the damage already had been done. The freshmen had four runs to their credit...
Five minutes later a single German bomber appeared, circled low over the town, dropped six heavy bombs on the railroad station, and left. After another five minutes a second bomber came and pounded the center of town. Fifteen minutes passed in quiet, then three Junkers 52s arrived 10 continue the destruction and from then on the bombing grew in intensity. Seven thousand inhabitants and three thousand refugees were first stampeded by hand grenades and heavy bombs, driven below the ground by machinegun strafing, and then buried beneath the houses that were wrecked and burned by incendiary bombs. Many were killed...
...happening. At far-north Narvik, Major Quisling's good friend Colonel Konrad Bertram Holm Sundlo, commanding officer, actually welcomed the invaders. At Oslo, when 20,000 troopers had been landed, and Nazi warplanes had appalled the population by incessantly roaring low over the rooftops, and 200 big Junkers 52s were shuttling over on schedule every half-hour, each bringing 20 more fully armed men each trip, it didn't much matter if the people found out what went on. In four busses, 200 shock troopers were sent to find King Haakon and the Royal Norwegian Government, which...