Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tireless statisticians of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. have figured out that no one should let himself gain weight after the age of 25-if he wants to live his full span. Last October the company published a set of ideal weights for women. Last week's Statistical Bulletin contained the table...
...Carroll F. Getchell acting director of the Harvard Athletic Association sees it, the idea, or ideal, would be to build up teams in a sort of pyramid. Start, for example with one company of the NROTC, and it will face the other companies. Then there might be an all NROTC team to play other groups in the V-12, as for example, the pre-Meds. It might even become a part of the House league. Then perhaps an all V-12 outfit to meet similar squads form the College, the Army Specialized Training Unit in Leverett House, and any other...
Somewhere in the Southwest Pacific white-haired Master Gunnery Sergeant Lou Diamond read his citation: ". . . outstanding performance of duty on Tulagi and Guadalcanal ... an ideal Marine." In Washington the Marine Corps proudly released the record of its paragon, already famed (TIME, Feb. 22) for the history his mortar crew made in the Solomons...
...beat da rap." As the Marines expanded to war strength, Lou Diamond was the ideal liaison between crusty old-timers and impressionable recruits. He taught quick action by threats of .yardbird detail and the rough side of a corrugated tongue. His men swore by Lou, remembered the time he dared a colonel to court-martial him for filching extra food for his men. "I'll beat da rap," said he, "I did it for da boys...
Certain facts about Ideal Marine Lou Diamond the Corps admitted reluctantly: that his real first name is Leland, that he is 53 years old, got through grammar school and eight years as switchman on the Michigan Central ($62.50 a week) be fore signing up in 1917. These contradict what every Marine has long sworn is truth: that Lou Diamond is at least 200, joined the Corps in 1775, has never been anything but a Marine...