Word: cadets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within the limits of honor, West Point cadets are adept at concealing their own and their fellows' misdemeanors. Allen invariably made concealment impossible; he committed his crimes in a public glare. Once, during a drill, a puppy appeared. Under the eye of his sergeant, Allen whistled, broke ranks to kneel and pet the puppy. When the cadet adjutant responsible for posting demerits made up his lists, he automatically included the name of Allen...
...plays the movie queen who accepts an invitation to the Winsocki prom as a sound publicity stunt. This is immensely embarrassing to the kid (Tommy Dix), who never expected his invitation to be taken seriously, and to his girl friend (Virginia Weidler), who finds herself a wallflower while the cadet corps make Lucille the belle of a brawl. Before the end of it, she has been stripped to her slip by souvenir hunters and has ricocheted among as many closets as the heroines of French bedroom farce. But the fun all remains well within Hays office limits and thrives...
T/Sergeant Donald F. Peters has returned from his furlough in Texas and is awaiting orders transferring him as an aviation Cadet. While in Texas he took care of one important item, namely becoming engaged to Miss Helen Wood of Tyler, Texas, the culmination of a necessarily long "air mail" romance...
...Princeton last week, for the first time, since 1782, gave no honorary degree. Cadet Adolphus Andrews Jr. led Princeton's R.O.T.C. in review past Vice-Admiral Adolphus Andrews...
...energy. Rejected in the draft (he is almost blind in one eye) he got special War Department permission to enlist, is now in officers' training school. Both he and Henry II are directors in the company. The youngest son, William Clay Ford, just 18, is a Naval air cadet...