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However, Hurlburt's tour of duty with the Army should serve as at least a feeble approximation to University dining conditions. While at Fort Bragg he was assistant director of the Officers' mess which served 3,500 members...
...second of excitement when spectators spotted a red-shirted stranger sailing over the pole-vault bar set at 15 ft. But before they could look up his name-Melvin Schwarz of the Baltimore Olympic Club-an announcer took the triumph away. Schwarz was only practicing. Perennial 15-footer Don Bragg, World Champion Bob Gutowski, Schwarz and Ohio's Jerry Welbourn all fouled...
With reference to your article on Paratrooper Flugum's death during training at Fort Bragg, N.C.: this incident has been the topic of discussion by many paratroopers who have constantly wondered why in Heaven's name somebody did not cut Flugum loose from the plane and let him pull his reserve. Most of us carry a knife with us for such a specific purpose...
...paratroopers dropped from the hatch of the high-tailed C-123 troop carrier. Their static lines, the 15-ft.-long "ripcords" attached to the plane, automatically plucked open the parachutes, set them free to drift, like whitish blossoms, over "Drop Zone Salerno" at Fort Bragg, N.C. "All troops away," sang the crew engineer into the intercom, and then he began routinely pulling in the static lines, which were wind-plastered against the fuselage. Suddenly he realized that one was stuck fast, looked down and under the plane to see a sprawling jumper being dragged through space, belly up, eight feet...
...Fort Bragg...