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Other deviations from wartime conditions: the menus for three meals a day for the duration of the maneuvers were printed by the Quartermaster Corps in a 41-page booklet. These included such items as oranges, milk, fresh eggs, cucumber salad, sliced peaches, corn on the cob, Rice Krispies, fish, ice cream, roast pork, potato salad, etc. Wherever possible farmers were hired to haul away garbage. Where soldiers had to bathe in creeks more than 5 ft. deep (two baths a week required) life guards were provided. Also 150 Army officer umpires were on hand to wave little red and white...
...long ago the Vagabond bought a new pipe. Nothing unusual about the incident, nothing unusual about the purchase, nothing unusual at all. Merely a brown, prosaic, upcountry corn cob that farmers smoke in the spring plowing. But it brought back to mind a far off day when the Vagabond had acquired quite another pipe, under quite another circumstance...
...American Round (90 arrows at distances of 60, 50, and 40 yd.) of 698. surpassing his own world's record of 673 and including 15 bull's-eyes in a row at 40 yd. Second to Champion Hoogerhyde was Andrew L. Brush, a professional of Cos Cob, Conn, who scored...
...will speak first, to be followed by President Lowell. After the addresses. Ellery Sedgwick '32 and W. S. Warner '32 will give an exhibition of prestidigitation and magic. Two motion pictures, a Grantland Rice "Sport-light," and an animated cartoon, will provide the final entertainment before the refreshments. Corn-cob pipes, inscribed with the usual red H and the class numerals, will be given out as souvenirs to all the men who are present...
...knocked down and badly bruised by a Manhattan motorist. He was rushed to his hotel where X-ray showed all bones to be intact. Next day he sat up in bed, announced he felt well except for a pain in his stomach, ordered a hotdog and corn- on-the cob, to test a new set of false teeth...