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...conscientious lad, Mr. Leonard says, will go through Mem Hall in 20 or 30 minutes, and by conscientious lads Mr. Leonard means Freshmen. Upperclassmen, he says, suffer from over-confidence and are always the underdogs of registration. He expects his peak load between 11 and 12 today...
Although Schubert was a short, dumpy, shuffling little man, Alan Curtis plays him as a trim, handsome, curly-haired lad with a nose for conviviality and an eye for a pretty woman (Ilona Massey). They meet on the Hungarian sheep ranch she manages for a dizzy countess. They part when she decides that it will be best for his music if he goes it alone...
...remembered the day when he pinned gold wings on Bruno's chest to make him, at 17, the youngest pilot in Italy. He remembered what the generals said about how the lad acquitted himself on bombing missions in Ethiopia. He remembered the speed records, the flight to Brazil. He remembered the necessity of recalling him from the Balearics during the Spanish war, because the Reds seemed to be gunning for the boy. This son was the real flyer. It was Vittorio, not Bruno, who made a spectacle of himself describing bombs as "budding roses," killing as "exceptionally good...
...time the Senator had a second Cabinet apology-this one from Secretary of the Navy Knox. Wheeler's son, Richard, had applied for admission to an officers' training school. Rear Admiral George Pettengill, commandant of the Washington naval yard, had tried to keep him out after the lad declared he shared his father's views on war. The case was carried to Knox, who ruled the Admiral out of order, put Son Richard into uniform, apologized to Father Burton...
Among the thousands of mechanics who learned the importance of Jo blocks in World War I was a Cleveland lad named George D. Webber. In his shop only the boss had a Jo set-they cost around $1,500 then-and kept it so much to himself that Webber could not get the use of it in time to check his work. He decided he could make a million dollars by cracking old Johansson's secret. Later he decided he could make accurate gauges by machine...