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...Cardinal's Bathtub. At 14 he entered Clifton College, which was noted for its "Roman stoicism and service suffused with Christianity." Though "it left too little room for the individual to develop ... there could hardly have been a cleaner school in England." New Boy Q decorated his room with knickknacks. Next day, the Housemaster pinned a notice on the school board: "The House is reminded that Corinthian embellishments consort ill with its tradition of Doric austerity...
Expecting a crowd, tall, white-haired Committee Chairman Clifton Alexander Woodrum, a shrewd Virginia Democrat who has wangled many a military appropriation through the House, installed a public address system in the spacious chamber, had a small regiment of usherettes on duty...
forum, M.C.ed by Clifton Fadiman, which gives civilian listeners a straight-from-the-shoulder load of what the G.I. thinks. The vets kid their disabilities ("the loss of my arm is no more of a handicap to me than my mother-in-law's . . . bridgework") ; ask no favors ("all we want ... is a normal life"); laugh at their own grisly-humorous "theme song," My Legs Are Getting Shorter All the Time. The most expensive and hard-hitting of radio's rehabilitation experiments, The Road Ahead has the explosive force of a buzz-bomb; it obviously shakes even...
...CLIFTON G. HOLMGREN...
...Marine Divisions, on the left and center respectively, made fair progress. The 4th, under Major General Clifton B. Gates, had tough going on the right flank. Near the end of the third week, the Japs on Cates's front decided to press for a decision. In the middle of the night they staged an infiltration attack-not a senseless banzai charge, but a well-executed, coordinated drive. The marines stood their ground, and in the morning 564 corpses were counted in front of their positions...