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...LaFlamme barber, Frank Machachio, longest-serving barber in Cambridge, agrees with partically every barber in the Square that people are forking over about the same "extras" as they did before the war. Tippers at their places of business are still the steady type of customer...
...shortest haul to any of the Allied battlefronts is 1,200 miles, the longest 14,000 miles. Every new front opened-in New Guinea, the Solomons, North Africa-is a strategic gain for the Allies, but it also imposes an additional drain on available shipping. The invasion of North Africa, and supply for the Allies after they were established in that theater, have required some 1,000 merchant voyages to date (the number of ships, each making several trips, may be considerably less...
Back in the nineties, when Derby topped President Eliot roared around the Square in an open shay behind two snorting, black chargers for exercise, Harvard got its first candid of Frederick L. Herbert, who has now succeeded retired Billy Moser as the Longest-serving janitor in College...
First climb after midyears will be an attempted ascent of Damnation Gully in Huntington Ravine, the longest gully in the ravine, which has never been climbed. Because of transportation difficulties, all climbs this year will be in Huntington Gully...
...Aleutians the P-38 has been in combat longest, with the most satisfactory results. Into San Antonio's municipal airport a 26-year-old pilot wearing a D.S.C., Captain George Laven Jr., flew his P-38 straight from three months in the Aleutians. Said he: "With a P-38 I would go into battle anywhere, under any conditions, with complete confidence that the Government has given me the best fighting equipment the world has to offer...