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...Congratulated his alma mater on its 151st anniversary. "The graduate of West Point," he wrote, "modest as may be his own natural endowments, goes through life ever facing a stern personal challenge-can he live up to the record of those who have worn the cadet grey before him? Happily for West Point and for our country, the building record of today's graduates is equal to that of their predecessors. A salute to all of them...
...Obedient Soldier. Karl Rudolph Gerd von Rundstedt was born in Ascherleben, the son of a Prussian major general. At 12, he was a military cadet; at 17, a lieutenant in Wilhelm II's army. He fought creditably on three fronts in World War I, and by 1929 was a lieutenant general. His first unsavory taste of politics came in 1932, when he was ordered by Chancellor von Papen to oust the Socialist ministers of Prussia; he obeyed. The ranking general when Hitler shortly came to power, von Rundstedt did nothing to hobble the Führer, acquiesced-however unwillingly...
...used to have wooden ships and iron men. Now we've got iron ships and wooden men," said the training officer to a bunch of German naval cadets just after World War II began. Cadet Heinz Schaeffer, 18, soon found that officers and NCOs had ways of putting iron into the German navy's new blood. Each man was handed an electrically charged bar. Movies recorded who screamed and who bit his cheeks in the approved stoic fashion. It was deep winter, but at 6 a.m. reveille the cadets fell in on the weather deck of the training...
Before long, Cadet Schaeffer's group was assigned to U-boat duty, and one day late in 1941 the fledgling submariners heard the speech they had been waiting for, the one that ended: "Go in and sink...
Squash is known as a college man's game. The Crimson's Charlie Ufford is tops in intercollegiate squash, but at the national individual championships at Buffalo this weekend he will be a decided underdog, chiefly because of an air force cadet who never went to college...