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...Forces sent him to India, where he flew a flock of missions out of a funny little strip at Ondal. He could give a Zero half a turn and still nail it in his sights. And one day he buzzed the airfield at Rangoon just to drop some comic books...
Tomorrow, the Junior varsity takes on its first opponent, Nichols Junior College. Shepard can't--or won't--say too much about his team, except that there are a flock of men back from last year's squad and up from the freshman team. Shepard hasn't seen much of his squad, and what he has seen has been partly Springfield, partly Columbia, partly Washington University...
...Listen to some of them: honesty is the best policy; a man is known by the company he keeps; he that goes aborrowing, goes asorrowing; a penny saved is a penny earned; birds of a feather flock together ; I would rather be right than President. Where do we stand today-where does our Government stand when measured alongside the moral principles-the sacred honor-of our founders...
...this prayer: "Lord, make us the doorstep by which the multitudes may come to worship Thee, and if ... we are ground underfoot and spat upon and worn out, at least we ... shall have become the King's Highway in pathless China." In 20 years Francis Ford increased his flock from 9,000 to 20,000, built schools, hostels and churches. When World War II came, he stuck by his post, aiding Chinese guerrillas, helping downed Allied airmen escape, relieving war refugees in distress...
...readers; to devotees of "Scientific American" he is known as a top-notch organic chemist, to the faithful of the "Boston Pilot" he appears as the arch-enemy of the parochial school system, and to those who buy the "Chicago Tribune" he is a sinster Mother Hen nourishing a flock of "Red fellow-travelers" under the guise of academic freedom...