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Finally this military mite decided to cast his lot with platoon 4 of Company C. Giving Platoon Leader Carl King a hefty salute, he fell in with the group as they marched by on their way to be paid...

Author: By Ens. ED Lambert, | Title: Three Year Old Wants Navy Pay | 8/6/1943 | See Source »

Operating within the new league will still be the Interhouse League and the ASTP Platoon League. Also announced yesterday by Samborski was the formation of a six team baseball league to include the three civilian Houses, Dudley, and Kirkland, and Eliot V-12ers. In the Interhouse League baseball game yesterday afternoon, Adams continued its winning streak, defeating Eliot 4-2. In softball the Bellboys whitewashed the Kirkland sailors 13-7. Platoon 1 in the ASTP softball league swamped Platoon 3 by a score of 10-2, while Platoon 2 registered an 11-4 defeat over Platoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intramural Athletics To Include ASTP, V-12 | 8/3/1943 | See Source »

...that the cleft hot wear the A-L's and the psychologists is firmly established (this column should be and be an inflammatory wedge by the time the psych lads have laboriously spelled their way down this far), let us start stumping for the 1st Platoon softball team, an A-L gang (naturally), and as solid a gang of ten-thumbed ball hawks as ever left three men on base in five consecutive scoreless innings...

Author: By George M. Avaklan, | Title: Specialists' Corner | 7/30/1943 | See Source »

After the Harvard intramural program gets going, the 4-platoon Specialists League will select an all-star group to represent our section of Harvard-at-war. Meanwhile, the aforementioned 1st Platoon (also known as the Left Bank Chapter of the Charles River Tombstone Carvers' and Trolley Motormen's Marching and Chowder Association, Especially Marching) is currently leading the Specialists League by virtue of having whaled the blithering daylights out of each of the other three clubs last week...

Author: By George M. Avaklan, | Title: Specialists' Corner | 7/30/1943 | See Source »

Finding, a lack of competition in its own outfit, the First Platoon of Company A of the Army Specialized Training Unit has organized a softball team that will play any and all comers in the University--service or civilian. Company A, which is quartered in McKinlock Hall of Leverett House, has been holding intra-mural games for over two weeks with the Fist Platoon emerging as victor in every contest it has played...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ASTU CHALLENGES ANY SOFTBALLERS | 7/27/1943 | See Source »

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