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...officers. In this one, a limping bomber, armed with a book of matches and three drums of gasoline, takes every chance in the annals of heroism, claiming half the enemy fleet destroyed; the other half is taken care of by a submarine commander, C. Dexter Collins of Chestnut Hill. Among the sub crew are Levine from Brooklyn, Gambaroni from the other side of the tracks, and George Washington Lincoln from Georgia...
Minnesota (St. Paul): December 30, Dwight D. Taylor Jr. '41, 1260 Northwestern Bank Building; Nebraska: Roberic B. Crane, Dept. of Economics, University of Omaha, Omaha; New Caraan, Conn.: December 27, David G. Marvin '36, Chestnut Hill, Wilton, Conn...
...Russian agriculture. Corn is barred to all of north and central Russia by the cold, to most of the south by lack of rainfall. The Russian soil, starting at the city of Astrakhan at the mouth of the Volga and proceeding northwest, is at first semidesert, then improves to chestnut soil (dark brown soil), then to rich chernozem (fertile black soil), and finally declines to thin podsols (grey, leached, acid soil) - see map. Russia's huge long swatch of chernozem is the biggest in the world, but most of it lies north of the latitude of Bangor, Me. (45th...
Muscovites may have been slightly surprised last week to see Marshal Semen Budenny canter across the cobbles of Red Square on a chestnut stallion. He took the place of honor on the 33rd anniversary celebration of the Bolshevik revolution...
...story ever appeared in the Mobridge Tribune. It was written in 1939 by the Tribune's Randall Hobart as a satire on country newspapers, first appeared in the Reader's Digest, has since been widely and solemnly reprinted as genuine. Just before Columnist McClain swallowed this old chestnut, :he Milwaukee Journal and Radio & TV Funnyman Arthur Godfrey also cracked heir teeth...