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Although plans for the Intramural Sports League which was to include the Platoon Leagues, the Houses, and the V-12 unit have had to be abandoned because of the increasing burden of new duties laid on the service men, the Houses and V-12 will continue to pick up games with the Platoons whenever possible, Adolph W. Samborksi director of intramural athletics, announced yesterday. Previously plans aimed to weld all these leagues into a compact intramural unit...
...softball games played yesterday, the Platoon League won two of its three games dropping a 9-18 victory to Dunster House, the leaders in the House League. Platoon 1 swamped Lowell 10-3, while Platoon 4 defeated the Gold Coasters...
...Rearguard's Fight. The little craft were taking the main forces of the Germans to the mainland. Left in the brown, rocky hills and steep-sided valleys to the westward was only a rearguard: battalions whittled down to companies, companies reduced to platoon strength...
Walter Ollen, chairman of the affair, promises a skit by each platoon, good chow, plenty of suds, entertainment by Baker members of the NTS Swing Band and if Buzzie Buskirk, Chet Travelstead, Merv Lysing, Pete Francati, Frank Davis, and Jim Oliver give out the way they did in the Yard the other night... it will be a whopping success...
John Hessler is back this month with the baton in Section A and is doing nicely with his demodulation of lookout groups, radio conference, groups and 111-A subscribers. It isn't any wonder that one platoon found themselves in the Subway headed for the Fargo Building before they realized that he said, "lookconferencehead group...