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...Point cadet. Three small pencil portraits in battered gilt frames arrived in New York last week to remind people that Edgar Allan Poe was also an artist and a draughtsman...
...full general (four silver shoulder stars, a salute of 17 guns). Soldierly son of a Civil War father (Lieut.-General Arthur MacArthur), the new Chief was born in barracks at Little Rock, Ark., went to West Point as soon as he could. There he was senior-year (1903) cadet-captain, popular, a baseball adept. Graduated into the Corps of Engineers, he engaged in rivers-&-harbors work, experience which must have weighed heavily with the engineering President. But also of importance was the wide variety of other services General MacArthur has seen: aide (1908) to President Roosevelt, General Staff Officer...
...windward will be blind. That of veteran policeman Mulrooney can hardly be expected to measure from afar the width of London's latest white trousers. So it is with a true feeling of sadness that each cadet sings official police words...
...Gretna. La., Cadet Cagle, aged 23, had married Marion Munford Haile. He returned to West Point to sign certificates that he had not violated the Academy's strict rule against cadets marrying. Mrs. Cagle taught school in Louisiana as Miss Haile, kept out of sight, never saw her husband drill or play football...
Busybodied newsmen dug up the Cagle marriage certificate. Cadet Cagle was in the infirmary after a tonsillectomy last week when his perjury was reported to Maj.General William Ruthven Smith, Academy superintendent. Within 30 minutes Cadet Cagle was again plain Mr. Cagle. General Smith let him resign instead of courtmartialing...