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...have been on duty with the Army Recruiting Service for over two years recruiting aviation cadets for the Army Air Forces, and we have never had a poster that compares with James Montgomery Flagg's excellent "I Want You"-until last January when Mr. Stan Ekman of Chicago designed an Army aviation cadet poster, a picture of which I enclose...
...Onetime cadet at the U.S. Naval Academy, he inherited $100,000, quit the Academy, decided against a legal career (his father and grandfather were New York judges), finally took a slow trip around the world. An actor next, he played in twelve flops in 18 months, quit to try radio. He was an announcer on a small local station when TIME discovered him. In 1932 he married Constance McKay, whom he had met when she was the heroine of a Broadway play in which he was the villain. They have an eight-year-old daughter, Nancy...
...Cadet S. Weitzman was so relieved at completing his cross-country flight that he released his controls while still rolling on his landing and shook hands with himself. The plane merrily ground-looped down the ramp...
Radio's shrill-voiced, incredible pundits, the Quiz Kids, last fortnight took the Army aviation cadet "screening" test, averaged a score of 101. Passing score: 80. Commented Van Dyke Tiers, 15: "Some of the math and physics problems I recognized from school before I was halfway through them." His score was 131, only 12 below the highest ever registered at the Chicago recruiting office...
Gerd von Rundstedt got his first military training in swank cadet schools, where stiff-backed officers and crop-headed noncoms broke young men and rebuilt them to the Army pattern. He was a captain and company commander when World War I began, went to the front with a crack infantry regiment. He distinguished himself. With his background and training he could not have done anything else. But he also showed a fine soldier's brain, and when the war ended he was chief of staff of an army corps, a higher leap than any other German general now fighting...