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...I.C.4-A. (for Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America) track championship at Madison Square Garden over runners-up Yale and 44 other colleges. Best individual performance of the meet: an American indoor-record heave of 60 ft. 7¾ in. by rawboned Jim Scholtz, a West Point first-classman, with the 35-lb. weight...
...current Annapolis anecdote concerns an unreconstructed first-classman (senior) who hazed an ex-paratrooper plebe, told him: "Mr. So-&-So, this Academy will make a man of you yet." Replied the plebe evenly: "Mac, I've killed better men than...
...aging, horse-bowed legs sometimes let him down in battle. When they did he would sit down for a spell. His men knew, and they loved him for his nerve. It was soldier's talk that "Ike" Eisenhower, a West Point plebe when the Colonel was a first-classman, had something to do with keeping Paddy up front. The arrangement suited old Paddy right down to the ground. France, beamed the ruddy Colonel, was his "graduation exercise" as a footslogger...
...Leisure. At West Point, football is the least important of Cas's activities. He takes ten subjects, required of every first classman (senior). He has the high honor and responsibilities of a cadet lieutenant. Like a third of his class (including four others from Army's starting line-up), he has crammed pilot training into an already crushing 16-hr. daily schedule...
...tackle and belonged to the famed literary group of "Fugitives"), took time out to fight with the Marines in World War I. At political odds with the chancellor, he left shortly before the end of his senior year, went to the Nashville Banner as sports editor under his fellow classman (now publisher) James Geddes Stahlman. He originated a popular, Will Rogerish column called I'm the Gink, branched into political writing with prodigious energy. Shortly after going to the Constitution he married a redheaded Nashville girl named Mary Elizabeth Leonard, who first saw him whaling a bully...