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Graduating Naval Science students, who will be commissioned on Commencement Day, have already received orders, assigning them to report for jobs ranging from cruiser duty to sub chaser school...
...NROTC men not graduating this month will spend the fortnight from June 12 to June 26 gaining practical experience in various activities of the First Naval District, including a week on a sub-chaser, Captain George N. Barker, professor of Naval Science and Tactics, announced last night...
...squad, as they lined up yesterday, are Freshman Jim Slattery, a lean gent who looks like he can hit, at first base, Albie Everts, puck-Chaser who hasn't played baseball since Freshman year, at second, Wally Sorgi a yearling who also pitches some, at short, and Brewster Wolfe, ex-Jayvee basketeer, at the hot corner...
...makes a good-not to say pointed-story for readers who like to take their fables neat. If they want a chaser, they might look into the real and more complex history of Japan...
...vast daily fountain of print is a national press. But it is also a hometown press and as such, for nine long years, it had been full to bursting with news of its own kinetic, photogenic mayor, Fiorello Henry ("Butch") LaGuardia. Whether as fire buff, civic scold, uplifter, ambulance chaser, hemisphere-defense expert, official greeter, fashion critic or hometown booster, Butch always has been copy. And the press has been good to him. Few politicians have ever received the continuous campaign support that New York's newspapers have bestowed on their bumptious little dictator and fiery reformer...