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...background, he'd heard martial music playing as he extracted, in order, a small card, a large, many-itemed form, and a snide little scrap of yellow paper. It was to this last that he'd addressed wary attention; it was closely printed with a series of crisp pronunciamentos, studded with "you will," "do not fail," and "all men . . ." Its final edict was simple: Vag was to be present at a certain place at a certain time for a "veteran's" physical exam. He was to fill out the big white form and bring it. Above...
...tried not to resent the whole thing, like a good soldier. After all, he thought, what could you expect with a military man running the whole set-up? It was probably the efficient method. And perhaps this was the way to handle veterans; hit 'em with a crisp military tone and they'll comply before the daze wears off. "You can't treat these guys too soft," he could imagine one Harvard Medical Officer sneering. "They're used to the rough stuff...
...CONNOR, ABOUT 5 FEET, MEDIUM BROWN HAIR, CRISP BLUE EYES, DEFINITE CONVICTIONS, SAID: "I'M THE ONE. I'VE BEEN ASHAMED OF IT EVER SINCE...
...rugged, crisp-voiced Jim Holloway is the Academy's youngest "supe" in 50 years. As a member of one of the speedup classes at Annapolis during World War I, Holloway graduated in 1918, in time to get in a few licks on a World War I destroyer. During World War II he commanded a destroyer squadron in the North African invasion, bossed the battleship JU.S.S. Iowa in a hit-&-run strike on Japan. But Jim Holloway made even more of a mark as a desk admiral. Besides cooking up the postwar education scheme bearing his name, he helped direct...
Mecca, with Lift. Skidom's newest center is on the Rockies' western slope. Early in the war, the Army, looking for a place to train its loth Mountain (ski) Division, picked Colorado for its crisp air, and powdery snow, and the Alpine grandeur of its slopes. As a result, a ski mecca with the world's longest ski lift (14,100 feet) will open this month at Aspen, formerly a quiet Colorado mining town. In Steamboat Springs, schools have begun ski-instruction courses, and three Big Seven Conference colleges (Colorado, Utah and Wyoming) have adopted skiing...