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...latter generally regret it. You are apt to boot yourself--hard--in the seat of the pants, if you go into the field without every intention of going on to graduate school either to teach or practice psychiatry...
...idea was just plain silly. Last year he made a recording-he didn't know how to write the notes down-and sent it to a friend with the Johnnie Lee Wills band. Says Tulsa's Johnnie Lee, the idol of the Southwest's square-toe boot and blue-jean set: "At first I thought it was crazy. Then it kinda irritated me." He rearranged it, added some notes and a little pep & polish. Sample of the finished product...
...William as a laborer. It was agonizing toil. Sand ruined the rubber rings in his pumps every half hour; each time, he dismantled the mechanism and installed new ones. The "coffee pot" rig broke down endlessly. He says: "We might as well have been drilling with a high-heeled boot." It took six months to sink a hole which modern equipment would drill in a week. The well...
...Alderman Douglas, the man who had been rejected by the Army for poor eyesight in World War I, enlisted as a 50-year-old private in the Marines. He had pulled enough wires with Navy Secretary Frank Knox to get a whole satchelful of waivers. He set off for boot camp at Parris Island...
...next day Private Douglas was in a boot platoon. He refused to accept a commission until he found he was too old for overseas service without one. Then he pinned on a set of captain's bars and joined the I Marine Amphibious Corps at Noumea...