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...Aviation Cadets: The Marine Corps draws its pilots from the Navy's Aviation Cadet program...
...Reserve Commissions: Open to single or married men, 20 to 26 1/2, who have served (1) in one of the top three enlisted grades; (2) as a warrant officer or Army officer; (3) as an aviation or navigator cadet until eliminated for physical reasons; or (4) as an enlisted man and possess a college degree. Men in categories (1), (2), and (3) must have two years college or be able to pass an equivalence examination...
Army roared back upfield with the following kickoff, only to sputter and stall again as Navy stopped the Cadet runners dead in their tracks. In the closing minutes of the half, Navy went 63 yards for touchdown No. 2, with Zastrow heaving a looping 30-yard pass to End Jim Baldinger, who clawed it away from an Army man in the end zone...
Everybody had the idea by now. Whooping and howling, the Middie cheering section hoisted a banner large enough to be read by the Cadet corps across the field. In exultant paraphrase of the title of a current movie, The West Point Story, the banner read: NOW PLAYING-THE ANNAPOLIS STORY...
Though Cagney settles down at the Academy as comfortably as if he were in stir, it takes some feverish scripting to get him there. A down-at-heel Broadway genius, he is hired by a producer ostensibly to stage the cadet corps' annual show, actually to lure the producer's singing nephew (Gordon MacRae) from an Army career to show business. Brass-baiting ex-G.I. Cagney rags the cadets so energetically that the corps makes him a plebe for a while to keep him on a leash-and, of course, to teach him to love West Point...