Word: cadets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the crossing of the line ceremonies Cadet Staggs was hailed before the bar of justice of His Royal Majesty Neptunus Rex and accused of winning the $100,000 Old Gold Prize, to which he pleaded guilty. He was then given the blindfold test of popular brands to see whether he knew an Old Gold when he smoked one. He failed most miserably, picking a Camel...
...Cadet Naval Aviator Staggs split his prize not two ways but five ways. He, Pound, J. D. Lamade, Joe Jaaps and W. S. Pye, all Navy men, had agreed that if any of them won the $100,000 he would share it with the others...
...members of the Class of '38 departed from camp with pockets full of "pay and allowances," ready to return to college and assume their duties as cadet officers in the ROTC unit this fall. The class of '38 was represented by John Briggs III, Albert E. Brunelli, John F. Casey, Wallace H. Cox, Edwin C. Davis, Joseph Franklin, John H. Hewitt, John F. P. Hill, Shepard Jerome, Jay W. Kaufmann, Richard G. Labovitz, Francis X. Leary, Lawrence H. Marcus, Joseph F. Nee, William P. O'Connor, Jr., Edward H. Osgood, Jr., Philip N. Stamas, Robert Sullivan, Alfred M. Torrielli
Last week Naval Cadet Pilot William R. Staggs, a black-browed, 25-year-old six footer attached to the aircraft carrier U. S. 5. Ranger off Coronado, Calif., exchanged telegrams thrice with Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews, chief of the Bureau of Navigation in Washington. Their substance: Might he resign? No. Might he marry? No. Might he have 30 days leave...
...Cadet Stagg's desire to get off the Ranger was something easily comprehensible to the whole Pacific Fleet. He had just won the puzzler's equivalent of first prize in the Irish-sweepstakes, had beaten 2,000,000 other hopefuls for the $100,000 first prize in Old Gold cigarette's famed rebus puzzle contest (TIME, May 24). News of the award and names of 200 out of 1,000 other prize winners were published last week in 350 U. S. newspapers by P. Lorillard Co. Inc. over three months after the last Old Gold rebus appeared...