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Resuming its power form, for the first time in over three years, the Harvard University Band will appear at the Navy Sub Base game on Saturday, manager and leader David Schine '49, announced yesterday. The band will march and drill to form letters...
...Japan's few surviving liberal lead ers. Said he: "I will do my best to lead the nation back to self-respect. . . ." His Cabinet included no outright warmakers, no great statesmen of any kind. One of his Government's first measures: abolition of bayonet and jujitsu drill...
...After World War I, U.S. companies could drill in Iraq only by joining the British-controlled Iraq Petroleum Co. and conforming to the Red Line pact. Under this pact, a member of Iraq Petroleum could drill in the Red Line area, which embraced most of Arabia and part of the old Turkish empire, only in partnership with the rest of I.P.C. As the British did not want to drill, they thus kept the U.S. companies from drilling...
...walked out, gaunt and shaken, to surrender Corregidor, Lieut. General Jonathan M. Wainwright did not feel like a hero. As a prisoner of Japan he did not feel like one, either. "Skinny" Wainwright, who could remember the bugle-bright traditions of the U.S. cavalry, learned a dingier drill-to remove his shoes when entering buildings, to bow to his captors. He was allowed no news. Lonely and aging, he could only wonder about how the war was going, and what the nation and the Army thought about him-if they ever did think about...
Three-Year Splurge. Greek-born Willie Helis, now 58, arrived in the U.S. 41 years ago with $22 in his jeans. He learned to sleep with a diamond-tipped oil drill locked around his neck, and eventually hit the jackpot. He now owns more oil wells than he has time to count, has spent up to $3,800 on a single evening's fling, smokes two dozen $1.50 cigars daily...