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With the full support of Harvard service heads Captain George N. Barker, USN, and Colonel John K. Howard '15, AUS, plans have been developed to match boxing, wrestling, swimming, and basketball teams in a three-hour, all-star contest...
...style. Steve Laird was invited to a castle outside London where he "drank good wine and listened to 1928 American phonograph records." In Cairo P. B. Stoyan dined in Oriental splendor at the home of an Egyptian Bey, a good Moslem who allowed neither women nor wine at the three-hour feast (which included five meat courses). In the Argentine Holland McCombs played host to the bachelor correspondents with an asado (barbecue) right on the edge of the pampas. And half the world away in New Delhi Bill Fisher, Bill Vandivert, Jim Shepley and Teddy White took over...
...boat on night patrol north of New Georgia when a Jap destroyer sliced it in two. The aft portion went up in flames. Kennedy rescued two of his crewmen, clung to the bow with them and eight others for twelve hours, towed one of the men on a three-hour swim to a small island. There they lived on coconuts for three days, then swam to a larger island, where friendly natives found them the next day, carried back to the Navy base an S O S scratched on a coconut. Back in Hyannis, Mass., informed...
...After a three-hour parley in historic Chateau Frontenac, Prime Ministers Churchill and King drove to the moated, ivy-draped Citadel for lunch. Later they called socially on leaders of the Quebec provincial government. Astute Winston Churchill did not neglect to speak French in the company of French Canadians. Then he parted briefly from his host for sight-seeing at Niagara, where he shopped for scenic postcards and remarked: "I've never seen the water look so green...
...More than 25% of engines built at the plant have consistently failed in one or more major parts during a three-hour test...