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Termed the "best collegiate band in the East" by the New Yorker magazine, the College unit, under the baton of Malcolm H. Holmes '28, Dean of the New England Conservatory of Music, and expert drill-master Guy V. Slade '32, last fall again graced the half-time intermissions in Soldiers Field...
Required of each student will be one Naval science course each term. Uniforms will be issued for wear at drill periods and on summer cruises...
...front of the house and then retrace their steps to the rear, meanwhile eyeing the audience and staring down curious spectators. Sumner insists that the sole purpose of the maneuver is to attend to the convenience and comfort of his audiences and denies all reports of morning drill sessions for his usher corps...
Unexpectedly, the school gong rang, and at the signal (which teachers mistook for a fire drill) 260 students filed out of the brick schoolhouse. Gallused tobacco growers loafing around the country courthouse in Rogersville, Tenn. (pop. 2,018) watched the kids coming, gaped in surprise when they read the cardboard signs. The kids were on strike for something kids weren't supposed to care too much about: they wanted more and better teachers...
This mail-order bookkeeping service was the brain child of Jack Hession, 36, who learned his bookkeeping as a federal bank examiner, got his financial backing through his war job as a drill-press operator in Consolidated-Vultee's San Diego plant. On the next machine was Charles Silverman, who had always made money fast (he sold his Boston-New York bus line in 1929 for a fat price), but had not hung...