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Yesterday's workout at Soldiers Field was another of the informal sessions that assistant coach Chief Boston has been conducting throughout the summer term, primarily intended to take some of the excess GI weight from undergraduates who will figure in Harlow's plans for the fall. The Boss had an opportunity to get a brief look at some of the players he had never seen before in person...
Along with yesterday's showers came equally refreshing news to University veterans in an announcement that the Senate and House have passed a $2,431,000,000 GI terminal leave pay bill and sent it to the White House. President Truman is expected to sign...
More than half of the 48 students enrolled, the largest number in the ten-year history of the program, are veterans studying under the GI Bill of Rights. Whitehead notes that whereas ordinary classes of past years were evenly divided between college students and working girls, eighty per cent of the present group "have had a wide view of life...
Jaakko Mikkola, track coach, said that the men looked fairly good for the amount of time they have been working. He said that since most of the men are veterans, they are still spending a lot time shaking out GI kinks...
Unique among the secretarial students is Miss Barbara Corrigan of Belmont, an ex-Wave who is studying under the GI Bill of Rights. A graduate of Westbrook Junior College, Portland, Me., Miss Corrigan spent 18 months in the Navy. She is already acquainted with the mysteries of shorthand and typing, but finds her pre-war touch dulled by life in the service and a brief review necessary...