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Amiably burlesquing the academic tradition, George Marion's book peoples cow-town Pottawatomie ("You made a lot o' me") College with a happy group of collegians whose principal credentials are their aptitude with a funny line or a catchy Rodgers & Hart tune. Summa cum laude in voice is Radio Songstress Frances Langford, crooning Love Never Went to College with feeling. Doe-eyed Lucille Ball gets choicer material in the well-worn I Didn't Know What Time It Was and the new You're Nearer, also gets the affections of Richard Carlson, whose crew haircut makes...
President-elect Nason is a bright young man. St. Paul-born, he was graduated summa cum laude from Minnesota's Carleton College (1926), studied a year at Yale Divinity School, a year at Harvard Graduate School, went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Since 1931 Mr. Nason has taught philosophy at Quaker Swarthmore. He married a Quaker, two years ago became one himself...
...entered the University of Ghent as its youngest student, graduated in 1882 summa cum laude, promptly became an assistant professor of chemistry. He got a medal and a traveling scholarship, but also got married (to his senior professor's daughter), emigrated to the U. S. and went to work for a photographic supply manufacturer. Then he started his own consulting practice, invented a quick-action photographic printing paper called Velox, organized Nepera Chemical Co. to manufacture it. George Eastman of Eastman Kodak bought...
Lesson No. 1, available as soon as the real story of Summa could be told, was that the modern concrete blockhouse, even though it be 30 ft. long and 20 ft. wide, sunk 30 ft. into the earth, its walls 6 ft. thick and impervious to heaviest shell fire, is not invulnerable. It must somehow be anchored. When repeated high-explosive blasts have blown the earth off its top and away from its footings, further blasts may get under and rock the blockhouse bodily, tilt it out of alignment so that its guns within-carefully adjusted to cover precisely plotted...
This was the lesson of the Summa Sector. With a prolonged rain of as many as 300,000 heavy shells daily, the Russian artillery, standing hub to hub, tilted enough forts of the Mannerheim Line to make possible a tank-&-infantry break through. Finns in the forts were jarred but safe until their own guns became useless...