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This time they had to pin down the Russian army in order to crush it, for the Russians can even now retreat 1,000 miles without even reaching the Ural industrial area. To do this, the Germans had to be free to attack along the whole 2,000-mile battlefront. For this the Germans had to wait for good weather. Not until mid-June can the ground be counted on to be fit and hard in the north around Leningrad (a month later than in the Ukraine...
...taken as any criterion, the members of the Class of 1946 can safely bet their Commencement John Harvard '46 will come from Jenkintown, Pa., have gone to public high school, have got on group IV with four hours of work per day, listened chiefly to classical music, loved pin-ball and betting, and chosen Wellesley as top women's college...
John Harvard '42 comes from Jenkintown, Pa, went to public high school, got on Group IV with four hours of work per day, listens chiefly to classical music, loves pin-ball and betting (in which he invariably loses), and chooses Wellesley as top women's college. These are the salient facts in the life of the average Senior, according to the Harvard Poll appearing in the latest Senior Album...
...describe the delicate tones of this sport, an entire lexicon of terms has developed, based on local personalities and applicable imagery. General talk ranges from "pin cheat" (one who tilts the board) to the conventional club greeting: "How's your pinmanship?" Nickels are "legal tender" or "apaches"; quarters are "shingles." Scores are kept in "thous," and an especially unbeatable machine is a "Gottlieb masterpiece," named after the manufacturer...
Only to the uninitiated, the "icebergs," who let the balls roll undirected about the board, is pinball a game of luck. True pinsters all swear that skill alone controls the boards. Most of the pin language, however, suggests that fate does take a hand in the proceedings. For example, when a pinster triumphs and wins free games, "fees," spectators race about in a mystic trance shouting "Pinball," a call as rousing to Bow Street as Rheinhardt is to the Yard. But bewailing bad luck takes up much more space in the pinball dictionary. A streak of poor playing is described...