Word: milholland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead the Rangers are picked for intelligence and endurance. Like Commando recruits, about 50% of them fail the course and are sent back to their old units. The survivors fit no common pattern. Commander of the Rangers now in training is slight, friendly Major Randolph Milholland, 36, onetime cost accountant from Cumberland, Md. One of his captains, Lloyd Marr, 31, of Lamesa, Tex., trained in civilian life by working up statistics for the U.S. Treasury Department. In commando training, bulk and muscle are assets. But the training-wise instructors know they are not indispensable. A stout heart counts most...
Vassar's reputation for radicalism comes from such campus heroines as Inez Milholland, '09, a black-haired Irish beauty who as an undergraduate soapboxed for woman suffrage, later led shirtwaist strikes in Manhattan, once rode a white horse down Fifth Avenue, died stumping for suffragism and socialism in 1915. But of all Vassar's graduates, Mrs. Allen reports, 70% are Republican. Other statistics...