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Army Second Lieut. Mary Lou Follett, 22, a nurse, and Specialist Fourth Class James C. Johnson, 20, a medical technician, met last summer while both were working at Heidelberg Army Hospital in West Germany. They fell in love -and soon fell afoul of Article 133 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which has been interpreted to hold that since Johnson was an enlisted man, Lieut. Follett was guilty of "conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman...
...told Colonel Cobb that there was no problem," says Lieut. Follett, "that my relationship with Johnson did not interfere with my duties at the hospital, and that furthermore I was dating whom I pleased...
YOUNG AMERICAN POETS. Edited by Paul Carroll. 507 pages. Follett...
...unnecessary and ill-formed," the text pops up with trivializing, signalize, actualize. It qualifies the absolute: fairly certain, virtual unanimity, quasi-universal. It insists that he betted on a horse is proper, speaks of cookery books, permits in case of fire but not in case of emergency. According to Follett-or the committee-margarine takes a hard g, and clothes, suggestion and chestnut should be pronounced cloes, sudjestion and chessnut...
...Wilson Follett, a sometime professor, magazine columnist and critic who undertook to write Modern American Usage in 1958, wanted "to do for the America of 1960 what Fowler had done for the England of 1926," but he died short of his goal five years later. His publishers, stuck with two-thirds of a book, surrendered it to a committee for completion. It was a rash decision, as General Motors' Charles F. Kettering could have told them. "If you want to kill any idea in the world today," he once said, "get a committee working on it." This committee...