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...Grafton Dulany Hanson, the first Capitol page, who was appointed during Jackson's Administration by both Henry Clay and Daniel Webster. After the Civil War, a bewhiskered, one-armed tyrant, remembered only as "Captain White," was enthroned over the pages. Captain White had a singular outlook on education: martial spirit, he felt, was everything. So he marched the pages around & around the House cloakrooms in close-order drill until they were dead tired and fighting mad.* After Captain White's time, a loose system of private tutoring...
...government relies on the police, most of whose key officials are hated because they originally worked for Japan. The country is under modified martial law, and there are frequent arbitrary arrests. Since the government took over from U.S. military authorities last August, it has closed 16 newspapers and magazines. The latest was the Seoul Shin Mun, the country's largest newspaper. A government spokesman explained that Shin Mun had "reprinted only 40% of official releases in the past four months and is therefore clearly anti-government...
...exultant Communist radio described the scene of the crossing: "The river rang with silvery notes of bugles and martial music . . . Boats by the thousands shuttled between the northern and southern banks . . . As 1,000 guns belched fire and smoke, the Yangtze waters were lit up in a lurid glare...
Robert L. Pratt '51, an ROTC student, will face a court-martial Friday to be tried for the theft of an army pistol from his instructor, Captain Paul J. Curtin, assistant professor of Military Science and Tactics...
Giveaway radio outdid itself last week by showering diamonds, ermine and trips to Monte Carlo on an elderly Negro couple in Philadelphia. For correctly guessing the name of Stop the Music's martial mystery tune (The Navy and the Army, The Army and the Navy) Mrs. Julia Hubert, 58, and her husband, Benjamin, 75, a former Navy Yard employee, were promised $35,250 worth of prizes...