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...After being drafted into the military--as all doctors were in those days--Coles found himself at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss...

Author: By David C. Newman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Beyond Academia: Dr. Robert Coles Listens and Learns | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...saluting in the flight line," observes a mechanic at Randolph Air Force Base. Indeed, enlisted personnel have normally lived in two-or three-man rooms since the 1950s, and their technical expertise has earned them better treatment than in other services. Major General Frank M. Madsen Jr., commander of Keesler Air Force Base, discloses that he has three enlisted men who report any ill treatment of airmen directly to him. "Their identity," he says, "is known only to me, themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Humanizing the U.S. Military | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

Although five lettermen left the Crimson at the end of last winter, sophomores Gene Kinasewich, Bill Lamarche, Ike Ikauniks, and Barry Treadwell will more than fill the gaps in the forward positions; and Weiland can now call on Chuck Keesler and Mike Patterson to help at defense...

Author: By Ronald I. Cohen, | Title: Crimson Hockey Varsity Picked as Major Power | 11/15/1961 | See Source »

...rescue male dancers from general scorn as sissies and mere props for female dancers. From 1933 to 1940 he successfully toured the country with his troupe of male dancers. But with World War II the draft made short work of this project. Shawn himself danced and directed shows at Keesler Field, Miss. Since the war he has devoted himself to building up Jacob's Pillow as a combination summer festival of dancing and a "University of the Dance." Current enrollment: 60 boys and girls who study ballet, modern dance, and ethnic dance (Indian, Hindu, Spanish, etc.) under Shawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: On Jacob's Pillow | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

First Lieut. Roy M. Cohn reported with 120 less renowned National Guard officers for a two-week stint of training duty at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss. Cohn took time out one evening to tell a group of local clubmen that everybody "should be trying to stop Communism," instead of criticizing his former boss, Senator Joseph McCarthy. His performance during the Army-McCarthy hearings having established him as something of an expert on the draft if not on wangling commissions, Cohn was naturally assigned to a group studying Selective Service. But when the nation's Selective Service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 27, 1954 | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

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