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Butcher and Bolt. It was Winston Churchill who gave Britain's Commandos their name.- After Dunkirk, when these special units were first formed, Churchill remembered his Boer War days and the Boer Commandos: irregular, ill-trained, but well-equipped bands of 300 to 400 Boers, with less regard for the niceties of war than for ambushing and killing British soldiers...
...World War I, Paul Butin wore the eagles of a colonel on his shoulders, but when he stood his last review his sleeves were crosshatched with a sergeant's chevrons. In one of the Regular Army's most irregular careers, he had left the service for physical disability after the war, rehabilitated himself, enlisted as a private. By last week, after twelve years' enlisted service, he was a 60-year-old sergeant, ready to retire. Said he, after a parade in his honor: "I wish I was 30 years younger and starting this all over again...
Barney Straus provided a minor upset when he defeated Howie Ezell to gain the quarter final round. Ezell, irregular on last year's Varsity, won the first set 7-5, dropped the second 8-6 and failed to keep up the pace, losing the third...
Barbs of criticism cast at the tutorial system are that it fails to instill students with more than a mechanical interest in their work; that assignments are too dull and irregular, and that tutors are too preoccupied with theses, research projects and regular class instruction to devote proper time to the task of guiding their flocks. The Student Council and various Faculty groups have already thrown their weight into the investigation; the added intellectual oomph of PBK may make the difference between investigation for the pure joy of it and progressive action...
...Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Dr. Myerson displayed to a gathering of top-flight U. S. dentists his new invention: transparent-tipped, natural-looking false teeth set in ruddy gums of a new plastic material. Exhibit A was a beaming colleague, fitted with a well-worn set of brownish, irregular teeth. "How becoming they are," exclaimed Dr. Myerson, "to the rugged character time has produced in his face!" As one man, the dentists rose and applauded the teeth, applauded bold Dr. Myerson...