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...unluckiest lad of all is Bob Brooks of F. Off to the Isle of Man and a cold climate goes our super scholar. But wait, look at the statistics! Present population of the Isle of Man; males, 6,000; females, 28,000 (under 26); babies 2. My God, Brooks you better take up the art of self protection...
Instructions range from naval etiquette to how a Christian chaplain should minister to a dying Jewish lad. Chaplains learn, too, how to work closely with clergymen of other faiths. One parson arriving at the college wanted to quit; there were Papists there. He ended up by becoming the buddy of a Catholic priest. Many a Navy sky pilot wonders out loud how he can go back to strictly denominational ministering after...
...that the outside world knew on Feb. 22 was that Hans and Maria Scholl and Adrian Probst had been beheaded. Since then other Munich citizens have laid their heads on the block before a white-gloved axman: Kurt Huber, a professor of psychology for 17 years; a lad who exchanged a leg at Stalingrad for the Iron Cross, First Class; at least nine other students. By last week it was apparent that the Nazis were worried. There were more arrests at Munich and a close watch on students at the schools. No one outside Germany could tell for certain...
...Cohn such an "unobstructed tear-duct lad" is more likely to be one of "the pinchers and garter-snappers of America." Says he: "Recently at a dinner in Washington, the conversation was suddenly stilled as a woman loudly said to the statesman who sat at her right, 'Hands on the table, Senator...
...dirt on a miner's neck? In the realm of ideas it was like an invention by Salvador Dali, not least because in the grotesque juxtaposition was revealed so much of . . . their sense of the necessity to acknowledge what they could not experience in their hearts because life lad set them too high, the agenbite of inwit, the gnaw of an impersonal remorse and a dim perception of the far-off sorrow of others...