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...Canary-voiced Patrice Munsel stands in the same relation to a first-rank coloratura that a promising West Point cadet does to General Eisenhower...
...ferocious block by Fullback Felix ("Doc") Blanchard* helped Quarterback Doug ("Hard Luck") Kenna sweep right end for the opening touchdown. It was Army's first touchdown against Notre Dame in five years, and it stimulated the killer instinct in the Cadets' cheering section. "Get more ... get more," they chanted, and the West Pointers poured it on. Halfback Glenn Davis, with All-America stamped all over him, carried the ball eight times for 83 yards, scored three touchdowns. As the avalanche rolled on, the Cadet rooters changed their chant to: "Hit 'em again ... hit 'em again...
...Capitol Hill." The Army has little prospect of immediately filling the gaps. The Cadet Nurse Corps, set up and financed by the Government to give free training to women, has contributed only a small percentage of its graduates to the Army. The rest have dropped out or gone into nonmilitary nursing jobs which have been ruled "essential." Major General Norman T. Kirk, Surgeon General, thinks the Army could draw 10,000 from the 209,000 women in civilian nursing without hurting the civilian sick. To 27,000 of these who had been classified as I-A material for Army service...
...stern school on the Hudson the pattern was almost broken. In his first year Cadet Hodges was "found": he flunked in geometry, and had to leave the Academy. But Courtney Hodges was going to be a soldier, and an officer, if he could contrive it. A year later, he laid down his job in a grocery store in Perry and enlisted as a private soldier. It was up the ladder from there on-corporal and then sergeant in the 17th Infantry, and then a chance for a commission. Sergeant Hodges had turned into a hard, determined student...
...Germans lost their only rail-served port north of Riga. For two months they had stubbornly clung to an escape corridor at the bottom of the gulf-yet, when the Russians captured the inland rail town of Cesis, they found it had been reinforced by Elite Guard and aviation cadet units from Germany...