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...next day Private Douglas was in a boot platoon. He refused to accept a commission until he found he was too old for overseas service without one. Then he pinned on a set of captain's bars and joined the I Marine Amphibious Corps at Noumea...
Buried Champions. After slowing fast-breaking Rhode Island State down to a walk (75-54), St. John's jolted once-mighty Kentucky (69-58) and then Washington State's up-&-coming two-platoon team (67-44). Despite this impressive start, there was still some doubt that St. John's was even the best team in New York City. That title had been reserved for its archrival, City College (C.C.N.Y...
...Young Upstarts. On hand to help launch the new organization was a platoon of top U.S. labor leaders, including aging William Green and dynamic David Dubinsky of the A.F.L., straight-talking Walter Reuther and diplomatic Allan Haywood of the C.I.O. Outstanding among the Continental union leaders was The Netherlands' pudgy J. H. Oldenbroek, general secretary of the powerful International Transport Workers' Federation, which has 4,000,000 members in some 45 countries. In the fall of 1944, Oldenbroek helped organize the general strike in Nazi-ruled Holland. In an election this week, he was likely to be chosen...
There was nothing Navy could do about the savagery of Army's defense platoon, the precisely explosive blocking of its offense, the smart quarterbacking of All-America Arnold Galiffa. A versatile, 22-year-old ex-G.I. (who is also a baseball infielder and captain of West Point's basketball team), Galiffa bossed the team with easy nonchalance, completed eleven passes, scored one touchdown himself and called on heavy-duty Fullback Gil Stephenson to crash over for three more...
...these things, from the case method to the two-platoon system, have gone toward making today's Business School a far cry from 1908, the year of the opening...