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Lieut. General John B. Coulter, 59, deputy com mander of the Eighth Army: West Texas Military Academy, 1911; cavalry lieutenant on Mexican bor der, 1916; aide to commanding general of 42nd Divi sion in World War I; commander, 85th Division in Italy, World War II; commander, XXIV Corps occupying Korea, 1948; commander, I Corps 1949-50; returned to Korea last August as the late General Walton Walker's troubleshooter-in-chief, later became commander of IX Corps...
...freshmen will also be given preference in draft exemptions. "It is the view of the Department of Military Science that the R.O.T.C. course should be considered as leading to a degree--that of Second Lieutenant in a branch of the U.S. Army Reserve. Completion is necessary to obtaining a com- mission." Therefore it is our policy to give deferment preference to those R.O.T.C. cadets who will have a sufficient number of undergraduate years to complete the full course of instruction...
Yates's Time also concerned itself with education, concentrating on Eton, Oxford and the fashionable philosophy of the day, sport (the decline of the British racehorse) and theater (an account of a rehearsal at the Comédie Française with Sarah Bernhardt, muffled in a jacket to protect her from stage drafts, explaining the proper nuances of her lines). For women, there were articles like "How To Become Beautiful" with such admonitions as "The first cosmetic is, after all, ordinary soap" and "As for that relic of barbarism-the tinting of the nails-it is useless...
...Paris, Littérateur André (The Counterfeiters) Gide, 81, motored to the Comédie Française to sit in a red velvet seat and mastermind every rehearsal of the first stage adaptation of one of his novels, Lafcadio's Adventures, written 36 years ago. A satire about a motiveless murder, the play is due to open next week...
...Utilization of Formosa by a military power hostile to the U.S. may either counterbalance or overshadow the strategic importance of the central and southern flank of the U.S. frontline positions. Formosa in the hands of such a hostile power could be com pared to an unsinkable aircraft carrier and submarine tender, ideally located to accomplish offensive strategy, and at the same time checkmate defensive or counteroffensive operations by friendly forces based on Okinawa and the Philippines...