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...sorts of amazing things, such as beating Penn and Princeton, and losing to Yale. The boys proved very good guests wherever they went, simply refusing to win on an opponent's court. They split two games with Yale, so the old grads were pretty lukewarm about it all. Hal Ulen had a good swimming team until Bill Drucker and Bus Curwen were graduated, and even after that things weren't bad. The boys upset Dartmouth one March afternoon, and Yale, in winning its usual tremendous victory, didn't look quite as good as its advance notices...
...Pudgy, genial Hal O'Flaherty, 52, whom Columnist Westbrook Pegler once called "a Model T, or primitive, Americanist," recently took leave of absence from his job as Chicago Daily News managing editor to go back to an old love. A war correspondent in World War I and head of the News's European staff in 1924, O'Flaherty will leave for the Southwest Pacific to report World War II, replacing the News's George Weller, Pulitzer Prizewinner, who is ill. New News managing editor: Lloyd Downs Lewis, 52, a jack-of-many-newspaper-trades (book reviewer...
Airlines' Flyers. Having drafted his executives, Hal George went after the airlines' practical know-how. Today U.S. airlines are flying under contract about 60% of ATC's overseas loads (Army pilots ferry all combat planes...
...weather, operate its communications system. In the words of their chief, "All of them are too young and too dumb to know what's impossible, so they do it." They are only the beginning of the force ATC will have by year's end. By then Hal George will, be able to say, with even more conviction than he does now, that ATC will have laid the pattern for something more than winning the war. It will also be a structure for international trade, travel, understanding among nations...
...much that range may be lengthened, with new fuel technologies, perhaps even with electronic transmission of power from ground bases - developments which visionaries like Hal George think completely possible...