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...thunderer himself. He is Organist and Choirmaster Frederick C. (for Christian) Mayer, one of West Point's major institutions. For 43 years, regardless of what changing taste in church music might dictate, Mayer chose such rousing processionals as Onward, Christian Soldiers and America, the Beautiful so that his cadet choir could march in properly. He remembers all the boys who sang in the choir (including General Matthew B. Ridgway, Lieut. Generals Lyman L. Lemnitzer and Frank F. Everest) and claims he can recognize the fathers in their sons' voices...
Military Paraphrase. So far, production has started on only a few of the prize "adjustable combinations,"* with their 34,000 contact points. Bugs still had to be ironed out. Organist Mayer and his friends, who had formed the Committee for Retention of Present Organist Until Completion of the Cadet Chapel Organ, pleaded that only under his guidance could the job be finished. President Eisenhower, who remembers Mayer from his own days at the Point (and whose son John sang in Mayer's cadet choir), ordered that the organist be kept on as a paid consultant...
Forty-seven of last year's cadet sophomores were disqualified from the program because they could not pass the flight physical. Two more refused...
...loyalty oaths will be signed sometime early this week, as part of a nationwide program. The oath names every organization on the Attorney General's subversive list, and asks the cadet or prospective cadet whether he has ever been a member of any listed organization. All Army oaths will have to be signed in the presence of Captain Roy G. Simkins...
...continually outsmarted a promising cadet halfback named Ike Eisenhower...