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...speaker is Lt. Bob Hackett '48, now Standish Hall freshman back from the wars. Holder of the Purple Heart, instructor of horsemanship at Fort Riley and polo player par-excellence, he was commissioned as the youngest cavalry officer in he history of the U. S. Army back in the summer...
...Hackett, who knows only too well that, "spending Christmas in a mud filled foxhole surrounded, by death is no holiday," is looking forward to his first Christmas at home in two years in the southern Wisconsin lake country...
Although trained in old style manner, Lt. Hackett rode into the Tunisian campaign with the mechanized cavalry swirling across sandy stretches of battle-ground in a jeep. Operating as a combat intelligence officer in North Africa, he took part in most of the major battles including Gafas, Seined Maknassey, Jbol Berda, and finally El Guettar, where on a reconnaissance mission behind enemy lines, he was hurled 15 feet by an exploding German 88 men shell, which tore away parts of both his legs...
...homegrown, all-civilian, unbeaten team crashed head-on into once-beaten Michigan. With backfield strength about equal, this was one more gridiron battle that was decided up front. The Michigan line hit hard, but not quite so hard as Ohio's, led by 190-lb. Bill Hackett, prospective All-America guard, and Bill Willis, husky Negro tackle. Their bone-crushing tackles were mainly responsible for four Michigan fumbles...
...older Holmes grew, the younger he acted. He liked to challenge the earnest young Liberals-Francis Hackett, Walter Lippmann, Herbert Croly, Felix Frankfurter-who flocked around him: "What is it? Tell me, I'll take the opposite side." "These young men," he complained, "are so damned solemn." He was painted by Artist Charles Hopkinson in the full glory of his judicial robes. "That isn't me," said Holmes, "but it's a damn good thing for people to think it is." When Justice McReynolds snapped a question at a green young lawyer, Holmes woke with a start...