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...shake-up after the race brought Charlie Chace down from number six to the stroke slide which his brother Spike filled on the Varsity a few years ago. This combination raised the hopes of all concerned by beating the third Varsity on Wednesday, and even coming close to the Jayvees. But newly-elected Captain Chace was not to avenge the earlier defeat when the Yardlings went the mile and three-quarters last Saturday against M. I. T. The Techmen won handily, leaving Harvard second place. A lot of the gloom conjured up by the two losses was dispelled when comparison...
Finally agreed upon was an arrangement by which Cuba would get a single clear channel, Mexico five, Canada six, the U. S. 43. Also agreed upon was a frequency shake-up by which more than 1,000 stations would alter their wave lengths. This week these changes go into effect. It is the greatest broadcasting transformation in the history of radio...
...Continued the current shake-up of U. S. diplomats, replacing political appointees in Latin-American posts with career men. To replace genial old (74) Indiana Novelist Meredith Nicholson as Minister to Nicaragua went Pierre de Lagarde Boal, 45, now Embassy counselor in Mexico City. To replace genial, middle-aged (55) Findley Burtch Howard as Minister to Paraguay went Wesley Frost, recently Embassy counselor in Santiago, Chile...
Across the Pacific from Pearl Harbor, where the Pacific Fleet is based, the U. S.'s third fleet, the Asiatic, last week kept a wary eye cocked on Japan and the combustible China coast. But the shake-up did not shake it much. Still flying his flag on the flagship Augusta was 63-year-old Admiral Thomas Charles Hart, whom fellow Annapolis cadets called "Dad" (because he had a baby face). Wise in the ways of the Orient, Tommy Hart has only five months to go to retirement, has done too good a job to be pulled out before...
Three days after the fall of Klisura, the Italian Commander in Chief in Albania, General Ubaldo Soddu, also fell-because of ill health, the Italians said. It was another case of shake-up sickness. Benito Mussolini had to have a winning general. He decided to let General Ugo Cavallero, who replaced Marshal Pietro Badoglio as Chief of Staff on Dec. 6, see if he could pick up the pieces in Albania...