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...been apparent all fall that Harvard could travel far with just a rock-ribbed forward wall and almost no offense. Now that the ground attack has come, Crimson enthusiasm knows no bounds. The only effective damper is the vivid recollection of the stains of "Good Night, Poor Harvard" pouring out across Soldiers Field one year ago after a similarly favored Harvard team had been soundly whipped by the fighting Elis...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: RUGGED HARVARD FAVORED IN YALE CLASSIC | 11/22/1940 | See Source »

Engaged. Marguerite Johnson, 32, teacher in the Rock Island, Ill. Central Junior High School; and North Dakota's isolationist junior Senator, Gerald P. Nye, 47. Senator Nye's first wife divorced him last March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 18, 1940 | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...meet a second, coastal wedge, surrounding Yanina (Ioannina). The central finger bored up the precipitous Aoos River valley, reaching its metal claw deeper into Greece than Yanina is. To get this far the Italians must have cracked at least part of the Metaxas Line-concrete trenches, artillery emplacements, rock-hewn machine-gun nests built last year and this under British supervision. The mechanized Italian "Centaur Division" took part in the Aoos drive. At week's end, by which time the Italians were approaching the headwaters of the Aoos, the Greeks claimed the greatest victory of the war. Some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BALKAN THEATRE: Murk | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...apparently did not forget to touch off the charges. Greece's Metaxas Line-pillboxes, barbed wire, trenches-was ironically strongest opposite neutral Bulgaria; nevertheless it offered barriers. The first line ran from Fiorina to the sea. The Greeks furthermore diverted streams on to roads, used every hillock and rock for sniping. Italian Alpinists are among the best mountain troops in Europe; but the Greek evzones-picturesque, wiry men in white jackets and kilts, slippers with turned-up toes and pompons, and any old sort of rifle-are tough and brave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BALKAN THEATRE: Episode in Epirus | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Rehearsals are being held every day in Phillips Brooks House under the direction of Roger Sheppard ocC. and A. George Rock '41. A tea will be held Wednesday afternoon by the Club in Lowell House for Flora Robson who is opening in Boston Monday in "Ladies in Retirement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC Names Manson To Lead in Next Play | 11/2/1940 | See Source »

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