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Annapolis was tougher for Burke than for most. "I didn't have enough background," he explains. "I nearly bilged out the first year. I had to work like hell, and I got in the habit of it." The habit has never been broken: Burke works from 12 to 14 hours for at least six, and often seven, days a week, has had only one 30-day leave since he left Annapolis 33 years...
...invoking the name of Arnold Gesell, the boy was indulging in a practice that has become something of a national habit...
...fingers." As for the much touted "valuable social experience" a pupil gets in school, "the values which are inculcated turn out to be largely these: a firm conviction that one can get by without working; an idea that quality of workmanship is of slight importance; a confirmed habit of disregarding instructions: a systematically cultivated indolence...
...varsity tennis team continued its shutout habit Saturday afternoon on the Soldiers Field courts as it romped to an easy 9-0 win over Boston University. The result had been expected, and the lopsided score indicates very little about the real ability of the Crimson squad...
Emerging from an after-midnight coffee session last week at Lindy's, his favorite spot, dapper little (5 ft. 4 in.) New York Labor Columnist Victor Riesel turned off Broadway and down silent 51st Street. By habit he had taken off his glasses. Half a block from Broadway, a young man stepped from the building shadows and threw a bottle of searing, concentrated sulphuric acid into Riesel's face. The columnist clutched at his burn ing eyes, gasping, "My gosh, my gosh!" The young man walked away and was swallowed up by the night and the city...