Word: cadet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Point captured five Rhodes scholarships-equaled only by Harvard. The Air Academy came through with one. Cadet Bradley C. Hosmer, first man of the first class. But Annapolis and the Coast Guard Academy got no Rhodes scholarships at all; it became clear years ago that a new ensign who accepts a Rhodes forfeits time at sea and mysteriously never catches up in rank with his class...
...former West Point cadet" named Dwight Eisenhower sent congratulations to a Dickinson College freshman in Carlisle, Pa. Ike was tickled to learn that Colin P. Kelly III, 19, son of the World War II hero killed on a Philippines bombing mission three days after Pearl Harbor, had won an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy, strictly on his own. The surefire way for "Corky" Kelly to enter the Point: accept an appointment by Ike, pursuant to a request made in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt in a letter addressed "to the President of the U.S. in 1956." Young Kelly instead...
...appointment to West Point. Two Honesdale teachers helped him cram for six weeks to get a head start, but the Point was like hitting another stone wall. Blunt-spoken upperclassmen advised him to give up, and it soon became apparent that he would always be a "clean-sleeve" cadet, without visible marks for leadership, scholarship or athletics. Once he made the baseball team wearing the catcher's "tools of ignorance," but that ended when he tore a ligament sliding into base. He graduated 86th out of 271 in the class of 1920. Among his classmates: longtime Army Coach Earl...
Left-fielder Bob Anderson, of football fame, led the Cadet attack with three safeties in three at bats...
Meanwhile, big things were happening in the field events. Jim Doty finished a creditable second to Army's Ed Bagdonas in the hammer, and John deKiewiet surprised the favored Cadet high jumpers by winning the event with a 6 ft., 1 1/2 in. leap. Hank Abbot and Steve Cohen took second and third in the shot, and Stan Doten and John Bronstein added four points in the discus...