Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Hubler's article, "Winning Medals and Alienating People," kicks off sharply: "To talk about tinsel and ribbon when death is the bitter fashion appears a travesty. It is necessary for two reasons. First, the men concerned with the giving and taking of honors-especially the latter-want to know about it. Second, the whole system of honoring American heroes is falling into disrepute...
...asking "What is Heroism?" wonders "which is the more deserving of the Congressional Medal of Honor: a pilot who has shot down seven planes . . . [in] 20 minutes* or a pilot who has headed a squadron and borne its responsibilities for months? . . . The former got a Medal of Honor, the latter a Navy Cross...
...left alone, to feel I'm my own master: but since the facts seemed to be just the opposite, I had to give in." Two books influenced his conversion: Rudolf Otto's The Idea of the Holy; G. K. Chesterton's The Everlasting Man. Of the latter Lewis says: "That book still needs a lot of answering...
...over-acting division is amply filled by one little girl, Lee Proctor, portrayed by Patsy Malany, and one sexy model, portrayed by Pearl Pollock. The former whines too much, while the latter shouts too much and talks too fast...
...members of the Freshmen Class Committee have been elected from Eliot, Kirkland, Dudley, Dunster, and Adams Houses, with only Lowell failing to take action yet. The latter election will take place some time this week...