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...pulled the letter out of his typewriter and read it over. "Dear draft board," it said, "please send me my deferment per President Truman's order of April first." It was a good letter, thought Vag, tight and to the point. He found an envelope under a pile of Coop bills in the top drawer of his desk, slipped in the letter, and took a stamp from the top of his roommate's bureau. Then he went out the door of the entry, into the tentative brightness of the sun, and across the quad to the mailbox. He stood...
...years at Yale, the last Saturday in April has been Derby Day, an event strictly for the hearty. Donning inventively outlandish costumes, Yalemen and their dates pile into trucks, horse-drawn wagons, old jalopies and chartered buses, drive ten miles to Derby, Conn. (pop. 10,264) on the banks of the Housatonic. There they drink beer, play ball, smash each others' straw boaters, throw their girl friends into the river and generally have a loud time. Some time during the afternoon there are intercollegiate crew races, the ostensible reason for the whole celebration...
...Harding's game-winning tap stunned the crowd of 1,800 which had watched the Crimson easily pile up a 45 to 35 half-time lead. Operating against the Blue's usual zone defense, the home team hit on its long shots and was occasionally able to work the ball under the basket to Ed Smith or John Stevenson. Harvard's first half shooting average was its best of the year--50 percent...
Yale is counting on an outstanding sabre squad to pile up points. The trio of Captain Carl Knobloch, Hobart Edmonds, and Karl E. Bakke was a close second in the National Sabre Championships earlier this year...
...Corporal Ardrick Hammon of Alton, Ill., radioman for an artillery observer, slogged his way north, so loaded with fighting and communications gear that he could stoop to tie the flapping lace of one combat boot. He felt a tap on his shoulder, looked into a lean face under a pile cap with three stars and a paratrooper's silver badge...