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...horizon a low-lying cloud appears, and grows. It is a column of dust, signaling a column of vehicles. They approach. There are tanks, command cars, supply vehicles. They clank to a stop and lie scattered. Men crawl out, stretch, make repairs, talk, crawl back...
Another column of dust peels from the skyline. The command cars and supply trucks of the first column withdraw. The tanks fall into formation, face the approaching column...
Communications from people who have heard WRUL in Europe indicate that 4:30 to 5 o'clock is an excellent time for American broadcasts to be aired, since they command a large audience when they arrive on the continent 10:30. This half hour Sunday afternoons has been assigned to the "World's Window" series. Program Manager Douglas H. Schneider is trying to secure speakers for subsequent broadcasts, and, according to him, many of them will probably be Harvard Faculty members...
During his two years at the University, Colonel Jay revived the Custom of having spring review for the visiting general, and succeeded in arousing a great deal of interest in equitation. The Quartermaster Corps branch of the R.O.T.C., under Colonel Jay's command, was organized last June at the Business School. Major Conners of this corps is at present the only other regular army man directly connected with the University R.O.T.C...
...Warsaw against the Bolsheviki in 1020, when women kissed the hem of his garment and men hailed him as a savior; Chief of the French General Staff when the full implication of a reduction of the length of compulsory military service had become clear; and finally to take chief command when the Germans had won the Battle of Flanders and were waging the Battle of France. "See Weygand," was Marshal Foch's reply to intruders and bores, and General Weygand, his Chief of Staff, was ever equal to the occasion. It is a matter of record that General Weygand...