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Donald Carlisle Greason, the forty-three-year-old artist famous for his aeries of studies of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is now preparing to paint a set of oils on Harvard athletics. Greason has been working since last spring in his attempt to "catch the spirit of American youth as it is expressed in the many activities of a great college...
...Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Harold R. Stark, last week contributed a pithy catch line to naval preparedness: "Dollars cannot buy yesterday." More important to the Navy was a joint announcement by Secretary Knox and Admiral Stark. Their announcement: that the Navy needed $300,000,000 to improve its warships' protection against aircraft. Observant citizens immediately recalled what onetime Secretary Charles Edison had had to say about anti-aircraft protection last May, recalled also that very little had been done about...
...Most significant of all, automobiles have put the gloom casters to shame. In spite of bad weather, Detroit had its best November ever, sold 400,000 cars to retail customers. One catch to this performance: although the 1941 model year began early, the early-season rush is still on. Also, many buyers have been frightened into premature turn-ins by the thought that the 1941 models may be the last for some time. Yet the automakers, just as scared of rationing as their customers, have been anxious to build year-end inventories up to the level...
Featuring the Thespian artistry of Roger B. Merriman '96, professor of History, in a leading comic role, Eliot House will present Thomas Middleton's Elizabethan comedy "A Trick to Catch the Old One," on Wednesday night, December 18, at 8 o'clock in the House Dining Room...
...games can score 16 touchdowns, throw seven touchdown passes, convert 18 points-after-touchdown and kick a field goal-to give his team 159 of their 196 points-is good whenever the pros can get him. The Chicago Bears and Washington Redskins had each reportedly offered $25,000 to catch the Wolverine Express for next year...