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...Some 400,000 studious U.S. fighting men may seek postwar underclass credits for correspondence and self-teaching courses of the U.S. Armed Forces Institute (TIME, Feb. 21). Typical of the Institute's daily ton of letters was that of Brooklyn-born Ensign Frank William Gardner, whose new PC boat is one of the first two U.S. warships with Negro crews. Wrote he: "They are aware . . . that the spotlight . . . shines directly on them. . . . Nearly all ... have shown excited interest [in] the Institute and the opportunities [for] correspondence courses, high-school . . . and college credit...
...flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la. . . . However welcome the sprinkling of dandelions across the Business School vista may be, the vernal efforts of Dame Nature are not alone responsible for the jubilation of the Junior Ensigns. Theirs is the joy of accomplishment which the combined connivance of the Management graders and the disbursing faculty has not been able to quench. The end of the second term is in sight, and with this consummation comes that added element of freedom which has been a shining beacon amid the trials and terrors of John A. Hancock, Ensign, S.C., (symbol number...
Have you noticed the new anchors the senior midshipmen are wearing on their collars? One salty midshipman when asked why he wasn't wearing the new device, answered, "It'd make me look too much like an ensign!" Take it as you will...
...this pillar's partner in crime, Ensign Gray, goes a 4.0 for prognostication, with regard to the new military organization of companies 3 and 4, as he called his shots. Our eyes are not so bright nor is our tail so bushy when we think of the third degree cooled up for us late this month by Lt. Beckman, heretofore eulogized in these columns. It has been suggested that a day of reckoning is coming republic vouchers...
...Ensign Edith Kingdon Gould (see cut), sightly great-granddaughter of the late Robber Baron Jay Gould, stood at the head of her graduating class at the Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School in Northampton, Mass. Not a college graduate, the daughter of socialite Financier Kingdon Gould of Manhattan enlisted in the WAVES as an apprentice seaman in October 1942, worked her way through t he ranks to an officer-candidate appointment...