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Frederick was a European prince of the Enlightenment, and not, like Adolf Hitler, a psychopathic noncom. He paid noble homage to Voltaire until the crafty genius abused his friendship by promising to report confidentially to the French court on what Frederick was up to. Frederick patronized the arts, practiced philosophy, loved poetry and composed for the flute. Just as significant as any of these gifts, however, were his personal candor and his lack of principle; he fooled and defrauded others, but he willingly, if secretly, admitted the frauds. Frederick was secretive and an adept at dissimulation ("If I thought that...
World War I as a noncom, served as a colonel in desk jobs during World War II, and in between ran a butter-&-egg business in Uniontown, Pa., his home town, and a public relations business in Washington. Says Griffith, who has fought organized labor on the issue of superseniority for veterans: "Veterans are not getting jobs as fast as nonveterans and something has to be done about...
Audiences were almost never alert to such real crises, but on the other hand were upset by trifles: their most violent reaction (lasting an entire act) was to an actor's inadvertently addressing a commissioned officer as a noncom. Audiences in general, Newman decided, have an "average mental age" of between...
...Pilot Officer Claude Weaver Ill, 22, of Oklahoma City. Weaver enlisted in 1941, won a D.F.M. as a noncom, then a D.F.C. as an officer...
Every enlisted man was a noncom except for a few private ratings, kept handy for "busting" unruly members. The Force wore its own branch insignia (crossed arrows), its own shoulder flash (a vertical "Canada" lettered on an arrow, topped by a horizontal "U.S.A...