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Blankets & C-Rations. At Anchorage, where thousands of service wives & children are based, the evacuation drill was even more realistic. Buses took women with small babies to Elmendorf Field where Army clerks speedily checked them through to planes. A special train stood by to take other priority passengers to the Army port at Whittier, 60 miles to the southeast. Meanwhile, the bulk of Anchorage's dependents jumped into automobiles and drove a full 50 miles down the road which connects with the Alaska Highway...
...Drill the Forehand. Ham Richardson has been playing serious tennis for four years. He picked up a racket one day, while his older brother was taking a lesson from a Baton Rouge pro named Jim Bateman. Bateman took one look at the twelve-year-old's swing, declared him a natural. After that, Ham gave up baseball and settled down for a few tennis lessons himself. After five lessons, Bateman packed him off to Chicago to play in a "13-and-under" tournament; Ham was runnerup...
...year after that he won his first national title, the boys' doubles. His engineer-father sent him to Tulane Coach Emmett Paré for more drill, with special attention to his forehand. The drill paid off. In 1948, Ham entered six singles tournaments, won them...
...bitter weeks of the Korean retreat, the officers and men of Paik's outfit learned much. They learned about patrols, flank security and taking cover. American advisers had tried to drill these things into them for months but, until forced to apply them in combat, many Koreans had not taken them very seriously. Paik always did. He drove his men, one officer said, "harder than the enemy...
Harrow favored no single style. After basic drill on squared paper, its boys were left to develop their own, using as their models great manuscripts of the past six centuries which had been borrowed from the Victoria and Albert Museum...