Word: dix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week this postponement became official. Reason: Army supply services had broken down sadly in some areas. Troops at Fort Dix in New Jersey, at Camp Upton in New York, even at Fort McClellan in "sunny" Alabama, battled mud, cold, rain, the discomforts of temporary housing in tents, on the whole kept their chins up if not dry. But strikes, bad weather, poor planning in some instances delayed construction of permanent bar racks, finally caused the Army to put off calling its second quota of 60,000 trainees until early next year. Originally, the plan was to have 800,000 draftees...
...special administrative work. Today every platoon commander of regulars is a Reserve lieutenant, and 70% of regular companies are commanded by Reserve captains. One reservist, Colonel Julius Ochs Adler, general manager of the New York Times, is in command of the Army's big reception centre at Fort Dix, N. J., and many another major and colonel has been dropped into an Army administrative job. Of the 14,000 already called, not more than 50 have had to be dropped for lack of stamina, indecision, other incompetence...
Even if Baritone Tommy Dix won a job, the Metropolitan would be hard put to find him work. He is only 15 years...
...must to all men, change of voice came to Tommy Dix, but earlier than to most: when he was n. He was then singing alto in the Trinity Church choir. At Manhattan's High School of Music and Art, where he won a four-year scholarship, Tommy Dix was president of his class, president of the Science Club, captain of the fencing team. Two summers ago, because his widowed mother was ill, he left school, "to commercialize on whatever talent...
...talent by acting in programs like The Aldrich Family, Superman, Renfrew of the Mounted. As a baritone, he is better than most is-year-olds, has been offered a fellowship at the Juilliard School of Music, but now inclines toward the theatre. For his interest in physics. Tommy Dix has been made an honorary member of the American Institute of Science. He is also a Boy Scout...