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Having heard many rumors about the accomplishments of the chief physical education specialists stationed at NSCS, your columnist thought it would be a good idea to obtain a firsthand report about these energetic individuals. He found that they were very amazing persons indeed. Chief Clem, the only chief in the Navy who pronounces "Idea" & "Idear," shares with Mickey Cochrane of Detroit Tiger baseball came the distinction of being one of the two graduates of Boston University to have won 12 letters. Chief Clem was left halfback in football right wing in hockey, fancy diving ace of the swimming team...
Into Yokohama Harbor last week steamed the exchange liner Teia Maru, bringing home some 1,300 Japanese citizens, able & willing to give their Government firsthand reports on how matters stood in the enemy U.S. after nearly two years...
...slow, bitterly difficult fighting. U.S. Colonel Raymond C. Hamilton, just back in Washington from the Italian front, gave a vivid, firsthand account...
...TIME as a Science and Medicine researcher in 1934 (a job her Bryn Mawr background in the sciences helped her land). But when Hitler goose-stepped his troops into the Rhineland two years later and TIME started building up its Foreign News staff for the storm to come, her firsthand knowledge of Europe made her a logical research-candidate for this expanded department. She has been helping to keep TIME'S Foreign News straight ever since...
...somewhat owlish Chicago slum boy named James Thomas Farrell decided to make the U.S. slum-sensitive. He succeeded better than almost anybody but Al Capone. Farrell's Studs Lonigan (TIME, Feb. 19, 1934) became a synonym for the smalltime U.S. tough guy. With dogged earnestness, a lot of firsthand factuality (Farrell was born the son of a Chicago teamster in 1904) and a total lack of humor, Farrell painstakingly traced Studs's dingy career and its social context through three slablike volumes. None of the Studs series was quite as good as Volume I, but in the general...