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Lieutenant (jg) Oswald Jacoby, one of the "Four Horsemen" of bridge, and Lieutenant (jg) Howard M. Menzel, former Harvard English professor, will play their trumps against George "Bunks" Burditt '44, and Hugh Hyde '44, basketball and Student Council teammates. The purpose of the informal battle is to stimulate friendship between undergraduates and the Naval trainees in the Yard...
...been called upon to appropriate $141 billion for war ($222 billion since mid-1940). Congress did, the while it filibustered over the right of Southern States to charge a man $1 to vote. Congress voted a Navy big enough to rule the seven seas; before Pearl Harbor its isolationist horsemen almost rode into defeat the President's request to put cannon on merchant ships. Suspicious of U.S. allies, Congressmen haggled over Lend-Lease; yet last week they could see the magnificent results of that policy...
Cavalry is the Russian winter weapon. Some of these horsemen were operating with General Melnik the whole of .last winter some five hundred miles behind the German lines. One of the officers told me they were pretty lean when they came out, but now they are square-looking again, their horses are fresh and they can sing...
...picked its mountain troops from among skiers, horsemen, mule-skinners, mountain climbers, trappers, prospectors, guides. Short to medium-sized men, the Army has found, tire less quickly at high altitudes. Fear of high places (acrophobia) is not always a disqualification: many a man who has felt nervous on a stepladder quickly learns a mule's aplomb on precipice edges...
Kansas. Small-town Lawyer Andrew Schoeppel, who played end on the 1922 Nebraska University team that beat Notre Dame's Four Horsemen, was nominated by the Republicans for Governor. Third in the race was tempestuous Senator Clyde Reed, who had gone back home, hopping mad over the closed shop and union initiation fees at Kansas war plants, to run on a one-plank platform: "fair" labor legislation. (He incidentally wanted to take State party control from the old Alf Landon machine.) Soothed the Kansas City Star: "Kansas voters [merely] sent him back to Washington, where many believed his issue...