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Mess Matters. At Camp Adair, Ore., Major Hosiah J. Osborn, assistant commandant of the 9th Service Command School for Bakers & Cooks, came out against K.P. duty as punishment, branded it injurious to the dignity of the kitchen. At Gowen Field, Idaho, the bugler, woolgathering, pursed his lips at 11 p.m. for taps, blew the wrong call, sent some 5,000 men scrambling for the mess hall...
...July 9th, Harvard's latest addition to the Armed Services, John L. Steele, was called into service with a reserve officer's commission of 1st Lieutenant. He is now in training at Camp Edwards, Massachusetts and has been assigned as commanding officer to a unit of the Amphibian Command of the Engineer Corps...
Peter the Athonite came first to Mount Athos in the 9th Century and lived there for 50 years, battling devils and beasts in a cave high above Homer's wine-dark sea. Then came Euthemius and Joseph, who sought eternal bliss by moving about on their hands and knees eating grass. All this was centuries after Xerxes' legions invaded Greece, and, of course, centuries before Nazi Panzer divisions...
Shankaracharya, religious reformer and young genius of the 9th Century A.D., "traveled all over India ... as a conqueror of the mind and in argument...
...Army Air Force officers will interview candidates in the Indoor Athletic Building on Friday, May 8th, from one o'clock on, and on Saturday, May 9th, at hours to be announced later...