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Last week the New Yorker was deep in a lengthy, serial exploration of this creepy process. A composite "profile" of the Digest and tall, lean DeWitt Wallace, its editor and co-owner, had already run to three dart-throwing installments and 14,000 words. How much more was to come was an office secret, but John Bainbridge, the 32-year-old author, said there was only a thin chance that it would break the six-installment record devoted to another Ross anathema, Walter Winchell...
...current Journal of the American Medical Association is an announcement saying in Dart: "A statement in TIME magazine [July 30] to the effect that 'Army doctors with iittle or no prospect of being mustered out were those already in the Pacific area (especially men in some much-needed specialty like psychiatry)' is said by the Office of the Surgeon General to be absolutely without any foundation in fact...
...flame. Another, that seems unhit, comes abruptly to pieces in midair. A heavy suicide plane with one wing gone, hurtles over & over with sickly oafishness as it falls. Another swoops in a long, low slant, just clears the heads of the crew, chops into the water like a spent dart: U.S. sailors, with the bemused fixity of men narrowly escaped from death, crane their necks like children to watch its explosion...
...remember just what set him off," confesses Novelist Oliver La Farge, describing this painful encounter in his second year at Groton School. "Perhaps I had wrapped something in toilet paper when I was packing." Whatever the cause, the dart stuck. Throughout the day the inspired bully developed it "through Bumwad Inky to Bumptink to Bump, and finally to the chef d'oeuvre of his career - Bop. ... I fought him and was licked, that evening and several times more in the next few days. It was too late then. I was Bop. ... I had joined the outcasts...
...West Point's present Superintendent, Major General Francis H. Wilby, invited criticism of the shortened curriculum from a board of consultants including Presidents Ernest M. Hopkins of Dart mouth and Karl T. Compton of M.I.T...