Word: cadets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voluntary retirement" ex-Cinemactress Shirley Temple, 11, emerged as guest of honor at the commencement ball of the California Military Academy, danced, as demure as dimity, with her escort, Cadet Raymond Berlinger...
Born in Pomerania, son of an Army officer, Wedel went to cadet school at 15, was the youngest lieutenant to volunteer for service at the front in World War I. He went through the war unscratched, was kept as a member of Germany's elite postwar General Staff. Almost as corpulent as Göring (from years spent sitting behind a desk at headquarters), Wedel has the same talent for organization. Like Göring, he drinks vast quantities of beer, eats gargantuan meals...
Following the reports of scouts surveying the enemy position, the unit will organize batteries, including two 75mm, guns, into effective firing positions. After telephone communications have been established with the main troops and the cadet commanders have calculated the firing data, the public will be free to inspect the batteries...
...when the war began, a lieutenant of infantry, hospitalized for rheumatism of the joints. He had been born in Bavaria, ninth son of a colonial official whose jobs included the first Governorship of German South West Africa, and had been educated in the cadet college of Karlsruhe. From the hospital, instead of rejoining his regiment, Göring went to the Stenay airdrome near Darmstadt, cheerfully admitted he had deserted and asked to join. the Air Force. He got his pilot's license in the autumn...
...Peroymen gave the stellar Cadet sabre team an unexpected battle, losing 5 to 4. Wynne Alberts, in the most thrilling bout of the afternoon, gained a decisive win over Army's brilliant Captain Rorick, while Ben Johnson, switched from foil to sabre, also did a superior...