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Died. Joe Clifton Trees, 73, millionaire oil wildcatter; of a heart attack; in Pittsburgh. Drill-driving Joe Trees and his lifelong partner, Michael Late Benedum, were probably the widest-ranging, wildest wildcatters in U.S. history: they opened scores of fields from Pennsylvania to California, Oklahoma to British Columbia, made, lost, remade numerous fortunes together...
Actually, the editorial department of TIME bears less resemblance to a precision dance team than it does to an old-fashioned town meeting when somebody is trying to raise the tax rate. Far from marching in close order drill, the editorial department has, in miniature, most of the virtues-and most of the defects-of Democracy at Work. TIME'S stories are born amid all sorts of discussion and argument about the facts and their meaning-and before they go to press late Monday night there has been more than one sharp conflict and too often an exploded temper...
Produally the two long-awaited volley courts take shape in the drill field of Mellon Hall. A couple of Glass grasshoppers were seen out there this week batting an innocent bird to and fro--mostly the latter...
Coeducation in another sphere was temporarily thwarted by an abundance of spring rain last Friday and Monday. The review on May 6 necessitated drill practice with the MEN--an unprecedented event in this lady's Navy--and we would gladly have given up some of May's flowers for the opportunity of meeting the schedule. But plans washed up the first two days. Sorry to say, some girls who never liked rain before actually blessed the elements for spoiling things. But honestly now, girls, wouldn't it have been better that way--all pals together, as it were--than having...
Apparently that New England curiosity is causing traffic tie-ups along Soldiers Field Parkway from 1600 to 1700 o'clock daily, when the potential 2nd Lieutenants have their physical training period clad in shorts, showing off their Miami suntanned legs--to say nothing of their drill-ability...