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...south and Mekenzevy to the east. Guns emplaced on these slopes commanded all the land approaches to Sevastopol. Below them, and between them and the city, was an unbroken mass of emplacements, trenches and shelters dug into the soft white-&yellow limestone and into the red-brownish slate of the hilly countryside. They comprised probably the most thorough "defense in depth" ever organized. Southern Russia's young summer was already hot, and last week half-naked Nazis lunged against these hills, died in the forest of guns...
Warmer weather eases the strain of navigating the mist-curtained Arctic sea lanes to Murmansk. But such meteorological relief works alike for friend & foe. Last week Luftwaffe planes spotted a huge Allied convoy specking the slate-grey sea between Iceland and Norway's North Cape. They engaged the convoy in a running, four-day battle, claimed to have inflicted grave losses: 14 ships sunk, 16 damaged. No confirmation came from any Allied source...
Adelbert Ames III, Thomas Matters, and Frederick Barton Harvey, Jr. were elected to the first, second, and third Class Marshal's post last night as the two-day balloting session to pick the eight man slate of 1943 officers ended...
...been added by petition to the 31 named by the Student Council nominating committee, and one name dropped. Mark Yohalem was added to the Chorister list and Charles Fenno Hoffman, Jr. to the Poet nominations. Robert Frederick Kolkebeck has asked that his name be dropped from the Treasurer's slate...
...second time in a row Mort Waldstein, Crimson strikeout specialist, had a shutout practically cinched going into the last inning and then blew all chances for a clean slate with a sloppily-played ninth...