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...large majority of the mammoth turnout were Freshmen, and Brown hasn't yet been able to get a line on them. After he's seen everyone's stuff, he plans to cut the squad to 25 or 30 men, who will function as a flexible Varsity and Freshman-Jayvee outfit. The regular Varsity schedule will be played with '46ers eligible, and the second squad will fill the old Freshman program. Brown will coach both; in the absence of Al McCoy, now a Lieutenant in the Navy...
...British positions in September, El Alamein was no place for the sweeping tank tactics of the open desert. To break either the Axis or the British line, the attacker needed artillery and more artillery, supporting and opening the way for infantry and tanks. Aircraft could-and did-function as flying artillery, but the Eighth Army's main effort in the preliminary stage was to build up its artillery strength. The Germans presumably did the same thing-with what success, the British were learning this week...
...members of the Association of American Law Schools echoed Harvard Law School's Acting Dean Edmund M. Morgan Jr. "The Law School will not close," he declared last week. "It has come through other wars and it will go through this war. It will continue to function as long as Harvard University continues." Many a law-school man thinks that the nation can ill afford to abandon legal education even during the war. Cried the president of the Association of American Law Schools, Columbia Professor Elliott Cheatham: "Lawyers are as dangerous and ab horrent to tyrants now as they...
...resulting confusion. Established to collect steel scrap-regardless of cost-the most recent agency, War Materials, Inc., adds administrative problems to the already crowded field. Lacking the power to condemn needed items as well as the jurisdiction over the scrap's eventual destination, it requires a charitable public to function at all. This at a time when some steel mills operate on a bare two week supply and when, as in July, an estimated 367,000 tons of steel production is lost through lack of scrap...
...everyone is a member of some privileged class, no one will be doing any work. Real free enterprise is needed. Regulation of the production and distribution of wealth, whether intended for the benefit of J. P. Morgan or of John L. Lewis and the boys, should never be a function of government. Mason Gaffney...