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Lieutenant Vincent Lauer was awarded the Commanding Officer's award, a gold set of insignia, and Lieutenant Irving Chvat was congratulated for being the highest ranking student in his class...
Lauer, author of the famous interpretation of "Minny the Mooch" in connection with the Military Law Course, won the Commanding Officer's award, a set of gold bars and Air Force insignia, for being the "best all-round man of Class 7-43." Chvat, who was congratulated on being the highest ranking officer in his class, has been assigned to the Army Air Forces School of Applied Tactics...
...moment. Should we buy anchor shoulder boards for our summer uniforms, and sell them to the next class? What hats can we wear with whites as Midshipmen? Can we wear whites as Midshipmen? For graduation, though, you'd better have an officer's visor cap, white cover, insignia, et al, and white shoes. Black shoes are required with khakis on and off the station. Tune in next week for answers...
...Diego the most marked difference detween popular brands of World Wars I and II is the tendency to abandon women, lean instead towards insignia such as the tin-helmeted bulldogs symbolic of the Marine Corps. A grinning death's head with an aviator's flight helmet surmounted by a black cat is popular among service flyers. In San Francisco last week sailors were still asking for Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, but social-security numbers are more popular...
...contributor's dog receives the rank of private or seaman, and so on upwards. Some Park Avenue generals or admirals ($100) may go so far as to have gold braid sewed on their strolling jackets, but officially each Home Guard K-9 of whatever rank receives the same insignia: a paw print on a celluloid collar-tag. Among the hundreds of generals is Mrs. Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen's miniature poodle, Ch. Fitter Patter of Pipers-croft, who outshone all her rivals at last week's Westminster...