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...WAVES are about to come ashore again. For eight weeks we've struggled bravely--although sometimes it looked like a losing fight--with the pay accounts of the USS California. For eight weeks who have lived in a world populated by out stalwart hero, J. A. Hancock, the vaguely beneficent presence of the CO, Brigham Scott, and by the more or less sinister though shadowy figure of Varnell Richardson, Julius Dortch, and bad old Luther Leinuel Green. We've figured their messman pay, their court-martial fines, their SKMC, AOD, S and FSD, and many other alphabetical sins and virtues...
Perhaps the most violent Carmen in operatic history was offered last week at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria-with a real soldiers' chorus. The idea germinated in the head of 23-year-old Corporal John Harrold of nearby Fort Hancock, former student at Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts. Corporal Harrold himself sang Don José. All other male roles were also sung by sweating Fort Hancockers. The Fort Hancock band blasted out a Carmen medley in lieu of the usual overture. Private Lanni Russell hurled himself into an interpolated tap dance (music not by Bizet...
Said Farmer Howard Hancock, who has a prosperous 740-acre stock farm on Hurricane Creek near Nashville, Tenn.: "There's more men on this farm today than ever I've seen here. I wish I could put'em all to work." The men were U.S. soldiers on maneuvers, and they worked hard because, unlike the men on last year's maneuvers, they knew they would soon face the enemy...
Robert Neiley '43 of Endicott, N. Y. and Leverett House was elected President of the Dramatic Club at the annual elections last night. S. Leonard Kent '43, and Jerry Maslon, '45, were elected Vice-President and Secretary respectively, Frank Hancock '44 was elected to the Executive Committee...
...production committee this spring will consist of Miles Chubb '48, Franklin Hancock '44, Robert G. Neiley '43, Charles Rheault '45, Alvin Ruml, '45, John Sterne '45, Martin Singer '45, and Rollo Thompson...