Word: cadets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Onetime cadet at the U.S. Naval Academy, he inherited $100,000, quit the Academy, decided against a legal career (his father and grandfather were New York judges), finally took a slow trip around the world. An actor next, he played in twelve flops in 18 months, quit to try radio. He was an announcer on a small local station when TIME discovered him. In 1932 he married Constance McKay, whom he had met when she was the heroine of a Broadway play in which he was the villain. They have an eight-year-old daughter, Nancy...
...Cadet S. Weitzman was so relieved at completing his cross-country flight that he released his controls while still rolling on his landing and shook hands with himself. The plane merrily ground-looped down the ramp...
...Cadet Vic Skov radioed the control tower: "I'm taking off on Pawnee Cross-Country." Tower to Skov: "Happy landings, everyone else is going to Temple...
...Cadet R. D. Stevens asked: "Oh, please sir, where am I?" The tower: "You're right over the field, enter traffic and land...
...Cadet O. P. Collie: "Sir, the clouds are forming under me." The tower: "Don't broadcast weather information in wartime...