Word: cadets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Engaged. Elizabeth Cannell Bradley, 19, only daughter of Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley, tall, tough commander of the Army II Corps in Tunisia and Sicily; and West Point Cadet Henry Shaw Beukema ('44), son of West Point's famed geo-politicker; in West Point...
Shirley Temple, 14, periodically publicized as having grown yet a little bit more, was at last really grown up. Broadway Columnist Ed Sullivan gossiped: "Air Cadet Andrew Hotchkiss Jr. will pop the question to Shirley Temple." Litterateurs...
After a three-month whirlwind Bond-selling tour of Mississippi towns (eating the best food at the tables of the best citizens), Roscoe Mayo Holdeman was taken into custody by the FBI. Holdeman had spent one year in the Army as a flying cadet. Last June he was given a medical discharge. He had never been outside the U.S. Unimpressed by his record as the smoothest, fastest, most effective bond salesman in Mississippi, the FBI locked ex-Cadet Holdeman up on charges of impersonating a U.S. Army officer...
Winged Victory is more a paean to youth than a picture of war. Incorrigibly boyish in tone, it might plead that most Air Forces cadets are little more than little boys. But the boyishness, which merely prettifies the first half of Winged Victory, somewhat falsifies the second half. Far from toughening Playwright Hart's flyers, actual war makes them almost more tender. The later scenes taper off anyhow, like postscripts in a cruder scrawl. Playwright Hart's real play is the training of a cadet. That story is not only vivid and self-contained...
...Leisure. At West Point, football is the least important of Cas's activities. He takes ten subjects, required of every first classman (senior). He has the high honor and responsibilities of a cadet lieutenant. Like a third of his class (including four others from Army's starting line-up), he has crammed pilot training into an already crushing 16-hr. daily schedule...