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...General Beaver thunders: "You must study . . . you must behave . . . and you must develop." Card-playing, gambling and cigarets are strictly forbidden (although boys over 16 may smoke pipes in their rooms). Cadets may go gallivanting in Gainesville (movies and soda fountains) only on Saturday nights. For violations they get demerits, and for each demerit they must walk post for an hour, with a rifle and full equipment, in the "bull ring." For smoking, a cadet gets 25 to 50 hours in the bull ring, for being A.W.O.L., 100 hours. For insubordination, he is promptly expelled. Despite these rules and punishments...
...took Louis 21 rounds to knock out Pastor-ten in New York [1937] and eleven in Detroit." But the majority of fair-minded fans, aware that Louis had set up such a high pugilistic standard that for him anything short of a one-round knockout was a big black demerit, applauded his prowess. In 43 professional fights-since the night in 1934 when he got $50 for knocking out one Jack Kracken-the Brown Bomber has been defeated only once (by Max Schmeling), has knocked out all but seven of his opponents, including five onetime world's champions (Braddock...
They can do this by walking a mile for each demerit. To get his diploma one boy at the eleventh hour had to walk 100 miles...
...high noon." Son of "Light-Horse Harry" Lee and son-in-law to George Washington Parke Custis, George Washington's adopted son, it was natural that Robert Edward Lee should enter his country's service. At West Point he stood second in his class, never got a demerit. In the Mexican campaign he quitted himself so ably that his commanding officer, General Scott, referred to him as "the very best soldier that I ever saw in the field." Though often under fire, nearest he came to death was when a nervous U. S. sentry's bullet passed...
...back. - ED. Ed for Ep Sirs: Who is the Sculptor Edstein, who is mentioned in the limerick which heads the article on Gertrude Stein (Sept. 11, p. 57)? Was TIME, usually so meticulous in the accuracy of its details referring to famed Jacob Epstein? If so, a large demerit for wanton perversion of the facts. ALLEN WELLER Chicago, Chicago, Ill. Sirs...