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"While the Army takes no formal notice of a college education in awarding commissions," he explained, "they usually find in college students the ability and the initiative they want. For example, in Fort Benning, Florida, the training camp for infantry officers, at least three-forths of the successful candidates have...
George C. Hopkins, parachutist who lighted on Devil's Tower in Wyoming last October and was stranded there for six days (TIME, Oct. 13), was accepted as a parachute instructor for Fort Benning. The Army rejected him at first because unhappy landings had knocked most of his teeth out...
Sergeant Winthrop Rockefeller got his second lieutenant's bars at Fort Benning. Carter Glass III got his at Illinois' Scott Field.
On a sunny, warm December morning last week, at Fort Benning, Ga., Armored Force officers got their first look at the new bridge. Instead of boats it has collapsible floats of rubber fabric; instead of planks, parallel steel treadways, 15 ft. long.
> In Congress, a young (32) New York Republican named Edwin Arthur Hall made trouble for the roads with the connivance of the Army. Congressman Hall (who has a brother at Fort Benning) introduced a bill that would help some 800,000 draftees get home for Christmas. If they do, many...