Word: cadets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thunderbird's Egg. Southwest's majority owners, ex-Test Pilot John H. Connelly, 48, president, and Cinemagent & Play Producer Leland Hayward, board chairman, hatched the airline from their wartime partnership in the Thunderbird cadet flying schools (TIME, June 9, 1941) and their wartime cargo line across the Pacific. At war's end, with $2,000,000 in capital and the backing of such Hollywood bigwigs as Jimmy Stewart, Brian Aherne and Darryl Zanuck, they got a three-year experimental charter from CAB for their West Coast feeder service...
...Army captain was helped off the field by his mates with a badly sprained ankle. Minutes later, the Cadet goaltender was likewise assisted from the game with a bad ankle. Finally, a 200-pound Army fullback was lugged away with a wrenched knee...
Physical education is also an integral part of the Cadet's training, and is not looked on as a mere form of recreation. Sports are compulsory all year round for every man, on the proven theory that good athletes make good officers. The authorities have found that five times as many cadet officers come from the top ten percent in physical aptitude as from the bottom ten, while almost all maladjustments come from the physically inept. The cynical believe that West Point's uniformly excellent athletic teams are a cause, rather than an effect, of the theory behind them, while...
...argued that four years of such influence virtually unalloyed by any contact with the outside world can only distort the Cadet's outlook to the point of uselessness, as far as dealing with ordinary mortals is concerned. Many men who served in the last war came away with the feeling that West Pointer's were little more than a modern-day version of the Prussian military caste, unadaptable to circumstances and unable to deal with personnel...
...life each group is trained for, the standards set for each, the philosophy each holds, all are probably as diametrically opposed as two groups of people could get. Whether or not militarism is undemocratic and vicious, or the Regular Army officer is blind and reactionary, the West Point Cadet has the faith of a tradition and a pride born of integrity behind that swagger in his walk...