Word: cadet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Palmer Reid Long, 21, A.A.F. cadet and younger son of Louisiana's late "Kingfish," Huey P. Long; and pretty, blonde Louene Dance, 20; in Los Angeles...
Said his son, West Point Cadet George Smith Patton IV: "Same...
...Hell on the Hudson." West Point rules and traditions struck Plebe Robert Woods like a tidal wave on the morning after his mad dash to get there. Reporting to the cadet adjutant, he got this greeting: "Wipe that smile off, Mr. Dumbjohn, or whatever your name is! Brace up! Suck up your guts! More! Get rid of that gabardine coat! Get those shoulders back! Pull your chin in! Further! Further! Where 're you from? The Navy? What part of the Navy? Oh, Annapolis, eh? . . ." The next few minutes of scorn were enough to wither an asbestos monkey...
...waiters in the Mess Hall, the Hell Cats (buglers), and all the Admirals in the whole - Navy." For the rest of the morning and all afternoon, indignity was piled on indignity. Between affronts, Woody lugged bed clothes, changed white shirt for grey, shut tled to & from the cadet store with supplies, learned about demeanor and demerits, drew a rifle, drilled, ran, crept, crawled, fell in but never out. When he finally stretched out in Beast Barracks that night, he understood exactly what they had meant at Annapolis when they spoke of "Hell on the Hudson." How Many Days, O Catiline...
...commander of the Italian campaign, showed up in his home city and was roundly cheered by hundreds of thousands of Chicagoans, soundly bussed by his wife and daughter, Ann. He got home in time to attend Ann's graduation exercises at Marjorie Webster Junior College, Washington, D.C. and Cadet Mark W. Clark Jr.'s, at West Point, (see EDUCATION...