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Wartime Hero. Zhukov was lucky to be away from Moscow when Stalin liquidated thousands of Red army officers in the purge of 1937, and like many of his fellows, profited by stepping into dead men's shoes. In 1939 he commanded the Red Banner army in Outer Mongolia, where the Russians were engaged in a frontier struggle with the Japanese. Zhukov applied classic cavalry tactics to armored warfare: he massed his tanks, smashed a hole through the center of the Japanese Sixth Army, and bloodily crushed its flanks between his fanning-out Panzers and advancing infantry. This little-known...
...girls, a senior who was alleged to have given a finishing touch to the story nearly missed her diploma and with it her graduation day marriage to a wealthy Long Island man. The Long Island press certainly did not help student-faculty relations when they published such banner headlines as: "ADELPHI LAMPOON TOO HOT FOR PREXY." The name of the paper was promptly changed to the Adelphian. The editorial staff struck. The editors defended the "freedom of the press," that is, as they say in Nigeria, freedom to do the devil's work. The theory behind the change of name...
Their selection brings to seven the number of Americans who have rowed under the Cantabridgian banner. The most recent was former Crimson stroke Lewis B. McCagg '52, who held a berth on the 1954 shell...
...military band struck up Haiti's national anthem, then The Star-Spangled Banner. As cannon boomed a 21-gun salute, Magloire led the Vice President at a brisk pace to review the guard of honor. "You will find a warm welcome here," said the Vice President. "America," replied the visitor in French, "is making one of the greatest efforts undertaken for the true liberation...
...reception at the British Foreign Office, so it fell to Daisy to make the welcoming speech to their guests. In her usual freewheeling style, she spoke of home and the necessity for Germans overseas to hang together in "enemy foreign territory." Somebody told a reporter, and the remark was banner-lined in London newspapers. In Bonn Konrad Adenauer learned of it, and Daisy and Oskar were whisked back to Germany to face an outraged Chancellor...