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...Japanese depend much on stealth, craft, deception. Sometimes they attack in mass, screaming. At other times they infiltrate singly, silent as little panthers. Snipers, who hide as well as they did in the Philippines, wear pole-climbers' jacks. The Japs advance with a white flag then toss grenades. Some wear machine guns strapped to their backs and crouch down while comrades fire the weapons. They often use English. They catch names and will shout: "Mr. Manning, withdraw!" A Marine far out in front and reporting by "walkie-talkie" wireless was asked how things stood. The Japs were horning...
...relief organization which needs no introduction is the American Red Cross. The Red Cross annually receives from the Boston Area donations amounting to between two and three million dollars, but this year the Red Cross will no longer be included under the Community, Fund and will depend more on individual contributions...
...everyone, especially the author, seems confused. Is it a comedy of manners, a bedroom farce, a philosophic romance, or a static vaudeville show? Unfortunately, it winds up with what looks too much like a prolonged curtain call. The dialogue, on which most of S. N. Behrman's plays depend, is laborious in its humor, forced in its numerous modern references, and "stuck in" like the book of a musical comedy. Songs and dances, stereotyped operetta characters, a gaudily colored scene, and some extraneous fill-in material complete this similarity with a musical...
...matter of the Freshmen frolics and Jubilee is still undecided according to latest reports, and the Jubilee especially is in doubt. Aside from the Freshmen dances no large dances are held at the college, except the senior Dance before graduation which will depend on how much of the current Senior Class graduates at one time...
...failure of last summer's experiment in accelerated education calls for reexamination of the alternative system, a symmetrical three term year. Military necessity may shelve the question, but, meanwhile, Harvard's future may depend upon an evaluation of the two-term Summer School...