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Last Word. In the welter of rumor, one explanation floated to the top. The explanation: Hudson and the Navy had bickered over Navy's intent to shift the arsenal away from mass production and to turn it into a gigantic repair shop and manufacturer of "custom-built" Navy products. According to this version the Navy had highhandedly settled the argument by its Commando raid...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences has voted to change the date of the Christmas recess this year from December 19 to December 26 to the week of Wednesday, December 22, through Tuesday, December 28. The shift of dates has been made in order to avoid the necessity of travel over the weekends, especially the Christmas weekend, when trains and buses will be overcrowded. Also, the recess originally announced would have made it necessary for students living at a distance to leave home on Christmas day in order to be back for their first class on Monday, December...
...first this dawning realization was a bitter pill for the R.A.F. Bomber Command and the U.S. Eighth Air Force. Every shift of bombers to the Mediterranean was a "diversion," a threat to the use of independent air power. By last week the pill was becoming an acceptable if not yet welcomed dose of reason and fact. Bomber men began to see that southern Europe offered better flying weather, bases increasingly near to central and southern Germany. They also began to see that "tactical" front-line bombing and "strategic" rear-line bombing were part & parcel of the same...
...Penn game last year, Harlow unveiled the double-shift, a little stratagem that caught the Quakers offside exactly 17 times. And Swede Anderson called it twice last weekend, although the reforce refused to call the penalty the second time because he didn't know what was going on. It's really quite simple...
...view of this simple realism, the extravagant newspaper stories which attacked General Marshall's shift fell flat...