Word: annapolises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was, for example, the short, happy life of Tom ("Shorty") McWilliams at Mississippi State. For one dazzling season in 1944, Freshman McWilliams, a swivel-hipped halfback, looked like the best up-&-coming player in Southeastern Conference history. No one was surprised when Shorty showed up on West Point'...
By last week the tide to the service academies had turned. When their civilian schools had whistled, the big names at Annapolis had run obediently back-Bob Kelly (to Notre Dame), Skip Minisi (to Penn). But Army was tougher. When Mississippi State whistled, Shorty McWilliams couldn't untangle himself...
For nine years at tiny St. John's College in Annapolis, Md., Stringfellow ("Winkie") Barr has helped his students catch up on the minutes of mankind's most memorable meetings: the "100 Great Books," from Homer to Bertrand Russell. (His list, which is flexible, differs from the University...
Captain Bonney, Annapolis '20, was a NROTC instructor at Yale University from 1936 to 1938, at which time he was transferred to the submarine base at New London in the capacity of executive officer. In January, 1943, he was placed in charge of Submarine Squadron 14 an remained at that...
Not all the correspondents realized it, but the U.S. press as well as the Bomb had been on trial at Bikini. The Bomb did its part. How had the press acquitted itself? Last week precise, Annapolis-trained Hanson W. Baldwin, military analyst of the New York Times, put into the...