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About Face (Warner) adds lustrous Technicolor and several lackluster songs & dances to the old stage (1936) and screen (1938) farce, Brother Rat. There are some strictly unmilitary goings-on at Southern Military Institute. Against Institute regulations, Cadet Eddie Bracken is secretly married to Phyllis Kirk, who is about to become a mother; Cadet Dick Wesson does not know that Betty Short (Virginia Gibson) is really Betty Long, daughter of the new commandant; Cadet Gordon MacRae sings such songs as Spring Has Sprung, and spikes an unpleasant chemistry instructor's hair tonic with green and blue dyes...
...city now admits that Eisenhower is a Jew." Smith's Patriotic Tract Society distributes scurrilous anti-Ike ammunition from a St. Louis post-office-box address. Prize offering (25 copies for $1): a photostat of a page in the 1915 Howitzer, the U.S. Military Academy yearbook, in which Cadet Dwight David Eisenhower was called "the terrible Swedish-Jew, as big as life and twice as natural." This gag was explained long ago by Eisenhower and classmates as a piece of cumbersome West Point horseplay...
Following the inspection, three members of the advanced course will receive medals in recognition of their scholastic work, leadership and soldierly bearing. The recipients will be Cadet Colonel Jack L. Wagner '52, Cadet Major Berthold Putman '52, and Cadet Tech Sergeant Otto F. Grote...
Many of those making the charges including the author of the letter, are members of one freshman Air Science class. These men claim that the dance committee representative in that class quoted Cadet Colonel Jack L. Wagner '52 as stating that failure to contribute to the dance fund would show a lack of interest in the unit and would cost against a cadet when his name came up for admittance to the advanced course...
Many freshmen enrolled in the Air Force ROTC unit here at Harvard have been disgusted and bewildered by the recent methods employed in getting "one hundred percent, not ninety-nine," turnout at the annual dance on May 16. The cadets and officers running the dance have used methods which amount to blackmail. In a recent air science class a dance committee representative spoke for about ten minutes to the class and implied that he was going to give the student cadets the "inside story." Simply, the story was that if a student does not put down a dollar deposit...