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...coolest men aboard were four U.S. Army chaplains-1st Lieuts. Clark V. Poling (Reformed Church in America), Alexander D. Goode (Jewish), John P. Washington (Catholic), George L. Fox (Methodist). The four chaplains led the men to boxes of life jackets, passed them out to the soldiers with boat-drill precision. When the boxes were empty, the four chaplains quietly slipped off their own precious life preservers, put them on four young G.I.s and told them to jump...
...shape this time. With U.S. Champion Art Larsen, 25, he had been barnstorming through a succession of Australian provincial tournaments for three months. Moreover, he got some expert informal coaching this trip from Adrian Quist, Davis Cup veteran and three-time Australian champion. In 14 hours of friendly drill, Quist helped Savitt improve his service grip and straighten out his hard, flat drives...
...faculty also voted compulsory exercise including military drill for all students for four hours per week, commencing after the Spring vacation. The administration decided that for the duration of the war, freshmen beginning with the Class of '46, would live in the Houses instead of the Yard...
...morning at Fort Sill he stuffed a rolled-up copy of TIME into his pants pocket and pulled his fatigue jacket down to hide it. Then he marched out on the parade ground to drill with his platoon. The rigid schedule of basic training left little time for his customary cover-to-cover reading of TIME. So he planned to read during the Army's traditional ten-minute breaks...
...plans left out his company commander's practiced eyes. Out to inspect the close-order drill class, Captain W. A. ("I'm a bug on proper uniform") Gorman quickly spied the odd bulge bobbing under Smith's jacket. He stopped the platoon and commanded the recruit to unveil the unmilitary mystery. When Gorman, also a steady TIME-reader, saw the reason for the bulge, he ordered Smith to "share his knowledge" with the platoon by reading aloud while marching...