Word: caps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Julius Albert ("Cap") Krug, young (39), huge (6 ft. 3 in., 237-lb.) Secretary of the Interior. Although he works like a piston, Cap Krug is still largely untried in the tougher aspects of his job. But he learns fast and has a stubborn core. One of seven children of a Madison, Wis. policeman, Krug worked his way through the University of Wisconsin by toting ice and baggage, carpentering and working in a filling station. At 30, he was TVA's manager of power operations, went from there to OPM as chief power consultant. When OPM was absorbed...
...piped aboard, the President wore a short-sleeved pink shirt, tan slacks and a white sulky cap. He stood on the conning tower with Skipper Casler, a fellow Missourian, while the U-2513 headed for open sea, beyond the southernmost limits of the U.S. Then, as the boat was rigged for diving, Harry Truman went below to the control room. Elevators depressed, the streamlined hull slid gently beneath the blue waters. The depth indicator showed that the President was going deeper than any of his predecessors*-200 feet, 300, 400 and finally 440. The U-boat could have gone deeper...
...been Stanley Sumner, who serves as the manager and part owner (with Lindsey Hooper) of the incorporated establishment. Sumner initially had two obstacles to overcome--the deep-scated distrust of the University community toward so newfaugted a creation as the silver screen, and his own inexperience with a cap-and-gown audience. To help him during the first year of business, he hired a prominent undergraduate as floor manager, Roy H. Booth, Jr. '28, Pi Eta president and baseball team luminary, and, between the two of them, the U.T. got off to a roaring start...
Skum's preoccupation with reindeer is not surprising. Throughout most of his 74 years he followed the herds from their summer pastures among the ice-capped mountains of northernmost Sweden to their winter grounds in the coastal forests. He pitched his tent in the snow and slept with his head pillowed on the red pompon of his cap. In his time he killed 28 bears (and innumerable wolves), which was enough in itself to bring Skum honor in his own country...
...royal coach, drawn by four grey horses, with the driver and two footmen splashes of vivid scarlet above the deep maroon of the coachwork. Through the windows the crowds could see the King in an admiral's uniform, sitting erect and wooden-faced under his gold-peaked cap, while the Queen, with her plump, pink-and-white face, powder blue hat, grey-fawn furs, was all smiles and gracious waves. The Welsh Guards Band played God Save the King as the coach went...