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...purpose of the project, sponsored by the Disabled American Veterans, is to help college administrators and personnel workers meet veterans' needs. The findings of the investigation were based on responses to a scientifically-selected sample of ex-GI's attending all types of colleges throughout the country...
...deal fairly and generously with hardship cases caused by this rise. It must maintain the standards of its Student Employment Office at the very highest level. And finally, it must administer its scholarship funds, some of which have grown substantially during the war and the postwar reign of the GI, so that the College will continue to educate large numbers of students from every income group and from every part of the nation...
...loss since the fall of 1946 as a service to ex-GI's and their wives, the Brunswick was revamped by the University at an outlay...
This is distinctly not The Story Of The Veteran. Although it treats of the uneasy sequence of strivings and debauchery which crowded the first November to February of three young men back from V-E Day these are not three representative ex-GI's. They and those with whom they travel in "That Winter" form a kaleidoscopic composite of author Miller and his friends: cosmopolites who are individualistic enough but possessing in common overriding sensitivity. It is such sensitivity which completely separates them and their war rebound from "average" veterans. Despite what some have said about its outdoing of Fitzgerald...
...times I regret being a veteran when certain misled or fatuous citizens begin organizing groups like the Veterans Against MacArthur. It is appalling when a few ex-GI's and ex-swabbies claiming to represent veterans as a whole get together, make a few asinine remarks, and fool that they have enlightened the rest of the public. With hour exams at hand I feel certain that Mr. Kornfeld and crowd can find more constructive things to do than organizing groups devoted to such childish chatter...