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...seaman, ex-mess boy, was catapulted front & center last week to become a Symbol of Negro participation in the war. When the Liberty freighter Booker T. Washington goes into service from California Shipbuilding's Los Angeles yard in mid-October, the Maritime Commission decided, she will be commanded by a British West Indies-born Brooklyn man, the first Negro to hold a U. S. master's certificate and the first to command a 10,500-ton ship. Captain Mulzac not only promised that he would be able to get qualified Negro officers to serve under him but said...
...chance to make a symbol of this namesake of a great American educator. First Liberty ship to bear a Negro's name, she is the first to be christened by a member of the Negro race-Marian Anderson, contralto-and the first to heed a Negro's command, the first to flout time-encrusted taboos against "checkerboarding" among licensed personnel...
...Elden Sawhill '43 has been appointed Cadet Colonel of the Harvard ROTC Regiment, according to the Military Science Department announcement last night. He will officially take command on Monday when fall drill begins at Soldier's Field...
Second in command of the regiment and Commander of the First Battalion is James H. Reynolds, Jr. '43, newly-appointed Cadet Lieutenant Colonel. This is a change from last year's organization when the second ranking officer was Regimental Executive...
After several days work totalling and figuring up the questionnaires included in the registration envelopes, the War Service Committee discovers that 767 men have signed up as blood donors. Second highest preference was for work in the Interceptor Command...