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...page size is 9 by 12. Offset printing and excellent design combine with the fact that some of the buildings pictured no longer exist to make the calendar, as the University Press puts it, "a distinctive, valued, and permanent record of Harvard's architectural beauties...
...tone of Alexander's report was not alarming. He hinted that new shark fleets may have fresh tactics and technical equipment aimed to offset the deadly Allied location devices and methods which ruined the U-boats in 1942-43. But the sub commanders are more "shy, cautious and nervous" than they used to be. The "largest ocean supply convoy of all time" -167 ships spread over 26 square miles of seaway and carrying 1,000,000 tons of cargo-recently arrived in Britain without meeting a single U-boat attack on the way. Like most Atlantic convoys these days...
...Roosevelt-Churchill declaration re admitting Italy to international high society had given Italians new hope. News of it flashed through Government offices, streets and homes. The declaration salved Italian pride. It also offset the effect of the Russian armistice terms to Rumania, which were much more liberal than the Allied terms to Italy. Even the lowest Italian laborer or peasant knew about the Rumanian-armistice terms. The prestige of the U.S. and Britain went down. The prestige of the Italian Communists and the Socialists, with whom they currently enjoy a united front, went...
...sloppy fielding which caused the loss of both of these encounters, and offset the superlative pitching jobs of Jack Wallace, but Stahl's ace contributed three errors himself, all on tricky grounders to the mound...
...neither qualified nor abandoned Britain's belief that she must have the Commonwealth & Empire behind her in order to remain a Great Power. His sage old friend, South Africa's Jan Christian Smuts, came out last year for the strongest possible Commonwealth bloc, as a friendly offset to the U.S. and to "the new colossus," Russia. Last week Smuts kept his counsel about Commonwealth centralization. But when the news of a League plan leaked out, with it came the word that Jan Smuts was its principal sponsor. Perhaps, as in 1919 (see below) he again saw a chance...