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...PAULINE FROST IVES New Haven, Conn...
...Unity. For dreary months last winter, in a dreary wasteland camp, 5,000 men of the Greek First Brigade trained for battle service. Many were tough veterans, evzones who had doffed their exotic petti coats and pomponed slippers to fight frost bite and Italians in Albania's wild mountains. They had escaped from the homeland when the Germans turned the tide. Now they chafed to get back into the fight against the Fascists...
...upon the fine appearance of the Battalion. Particular praise should be awarded to the following men: "Kelly" Hunt for his "sounding off"--We feared for a while that Kel was being made to recite the Constitution--Tom Gaines for marching without the aid of his Seeing Eye dog. Jack Frost says, "Gaines is the only man in the world whose Seeing Eye dog needs a Seeing Eye dog."--Bob "Pancho" Bisbe, for his gallant, well-concealed maneuver in removing one ambidextrous spider from a friend's neck--Vern Nelson for marching all the time without his book...
...notably, the incredibly prolific "King of the Pulps" who wrote westerns, romances, whodunits and cinema stories under the pseudonyms Max Brand, David Manning, George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, Nicholas Silver, Hugh Owen, Frank Austin, George Challis, Walter C. Butler, John Frederick, Peter Henry Moreland, Lee Bolt, Dennis Lawton, Frederick Frost. Among his creations were Hollywood's Drs. Kildare and Gillespie, Horseman Destry, Secret Agent Anthony Hamilton, Silvertip the Outlaw...
Jimmy's was founded by one Dr. Frost; its nickname came from a subsequent, highly successful Army examination tutor, Captain Walter James, Royal Engineers. Today the school is headed by benignly sharp Daniel A. Ruddle, who has been its scientific tutor for 30 years and would make an impressive stand-in for Mr. Chips. The school at present concentrates on the extremely stiff examinations for the medical profession, Navy cadetships, Royal Marines and Royal Indian Navy. After the war, however, Mr. Ruddle expects to offer, as before, the highest type of abbreviated preparation for university examinations, including honors finals...