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...four years without being "frapped" (reported for some infraction). For a long list of Class B offenses (from "hair not properly cut" to "window, throwing articles from") midshipmen sweat out hours of extra duty drills. For a shorter list of Class A offenses (malingering, obscenity, scandalous conduct, etc.) midshipmen brood in confinement in their rooms. Midshipman quip that there are still men from the classes of the '30s gathering dust in forgotten corners of Bancroft Hall...
Full-Time Job. Racing men tried to talk free-spending Willie Helis into buying a breeding farm in Kentucky or Virginia. Instead, he bought New Jersey's long-idle, 1,200-acre Rancocas Farm. Helis' present ambition: 15 stallions and 250 brood mares, 225 new foals at Rancocas each spring...
...Sees Two Brood Aims...
...years, Street & Smith has conceived and killed a fabulous brood of magazines. Last week this hoary outfit, king of the Deadeye Dick market in the gaslit days, unwrapped its first package designed for the neon-lit postwar world...
Teacher Salzedo rules his brood of high-strung harpists with a soft voice and an iron hand. He begins the summer session by outlawing the wearing of slacks, ordering the hair to be worn on top of the head ("It goes with the instrument") and personally trimming each student's fingernails to the quick...