Word: cadet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well-rounded that none of his friends ever regarded him as a bookworm. He plays good squash and tennis, won a $60-a-month athletic scholarship at St. John's to coach intramural basketball and baseball, played extracurricular bridge and pool. As a World War II pre-aviation cadet whose initials doomed him to the nickname "V.D.," he became adept at poker. Pooling resources with a buddy named Laural Whipkey, now an advertising man in West Virginia, Corporal Van Doren played poker twelve hours a day, won $3,000 in a year. Says Whipkey: "He figures the percentage...
...varsity swimming team will begin Eastern Intercollegiate League competition Saturday in the Cadet pool at West Point. The meet is expected to bear little resemblance to the Crimson's 69-17 exercise over M.I.T...
...Other Cadet strength lies in the backstroke and in a potent medley relay team. The backstroke, recently a weak spot for the Crimson, may show renewed strength, since Bill Murray and John Trainer continue to improve...
Against the Cadet medley relay combination, varsity coach Hal Ulen will probably send Murray, Sigo Falk, Bill Hoadley, and Jon Lind. This team was successful against M.I.T., but should have some trouble at the Point...
...John, a good-looking, 18-year-old son of a hardworking Chicago court bailiff, came to M.I.T. with just about all the honors that Chicago's Lane Technical High School could heap on him: a place on the super-honor roll, divisional presidency of the student council, a cadet colonel's rank in R.O.T.C., and-finally-the American Legion's coveted high-school award for the class of '56. But for some reason John was falling far behind his M.I.T. classmates...