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...tricks and tactics were not essentially new. An old-fashioned ambush broke the back of Britain's armored forces in Libya. Tobruk and Matrûh fell to typical shock assaults by land and air. In the U.S. Civil War, Stonewall Jackson and William Tecumseh Sherman won battles and made great advances just as Rommel did-by forced marches and surprise attacks when, according to the rules, their armies should have been resting for the next round...
Against such defenses, the typical blitz-the quick shock, the breakthrough, the spearing advance by planes, tanks and mobile artillery, then the followup by infantry-will not serve as it did in Poland, in the Lowlands, in Russia's first months. Now, in depth and thorough preparation, the Russian defenses are stronger than those which slowed the Nazi drive last fall, then stopped it with winter's paralyzing help. But, if Stalin and his staff have learned how to crack the 1940-model blitz. Hitler's generals have had many months to study Soviet defense. Moscow...
...English A-1 prize short story is something of a shock. Mature in its technique, Robert Ogden's "Sandy" still seems somewhat out of place, for it adds too little to the usual in horse stories to be truly worthwhile. Wallace Stegner's article, "A Credo for the Unconvinced," is an interesting revaluation of the basis of contemporary criticism which, while it may prove too personal for universal approval, should convince many of the sympathy with which this English A-1 section man will regard their work. The abbreviated version of the Advocate's usual guide to the night life...
...Japanese got a mighty shock. Midway was ready. This much the Japanese might have expected: Midway's defending Marines had repulsed five lighter attacks. What the Japanese patently did not expect was the strength of the forces on and around Midway. Marine Corps fighters instantly took the air. On Midway's field were Army bombers, warmed up and ready to track fleeing Japs to their carriers. Anti-aircraft fire blanketed Midway...
Recent generations of Harvard men, who have undergone the orderly graduation from Yard to Houses, will look upon this innovation with far greater shock than will its victims. Should the cause be sought by either, it lies purely and simply in the fact that the Yard is being turned over to the Navy for a Radio Communication School. Gone also for Freshmen will be the Harvard Union, where so many of their forebears have first learned to complain about College food...