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...Corregidor, the Stars & Stripes, which were hauled down and burned just before the surrender to Japan on May 6, 1942, were pulled down again. After more than four decades as a U.S. fortress, the Rock was turned over to the new Philippines Republic...
...herders' settlement in the Swiss Alps 200 years ago. Far below in the village of Aire, the roar was heard in the middle of a clear June night. Next morning, the lovely, cattle-dotted valley of Derborence was choked with the 150,000,000 cubic feet of rock that had loomed over the region as the Devil's Tower. In Aire nearly every house had lost a husband, son or brother. Thérèse, who was pregnant, had lost her young husband Antoine, and her uncle Seraphin, with whom he shared...
...help the Chief this year are three newcomers to the Crimson coaching staff. Cleo O'Donnell, last year's football captain, is the backfield coach while Eddie Davis, the rock of the 1946 line, is helping Boston with the guards, tackles, and centers. Junior Tom Guthrie, a transfer from Notre Dame who is ineligible to play ball this year under Ivy League rules, handles the end squad-but without getting paid...
Although lecturers were having some difficulty making themselves heard, especially in the larger courses, Stillman officials said last night that there was no threat of an epidemic. "There is no more than the normal autumn incidence of colds here now," Rock said...
...Continent Lost. The Atlantis (jointly sponsored by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Columbia University and the National Geographic Society) was equipped with sonic depth-finders, seismographs and other up-to-date gadgets of sea-bottom exploration. Most promising work was done by dredges, which brought up samples of rock. The rocks have not yet been studied, but Columbia's Professor Maurice Ewing, head of the expedition, hopes that they will tell much about the geological origin of the underwater range...