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...quarter, the Middies battled Army's powerhouse on even terms. Then West Point's T began to explode-despite the slippery footing which several times threw off the fine T timing. Quarterback Doug Kenna found a soft spot in the center of Navy's line, sent Plebe-Fullback Felix ("Doc") Blanchard bulling through. When the Midshipmen closed up to plug the gap, Army blockers-with Blanchard generally in the van-shook Speedster Glenn Davis loose on the flanks. As they had done all year, Army's swivel-hipped backs went for distance once they...
...Africa and Sicily, "Paddy" Flint's aging, horse-bowed legs sometimes let him down in battle. When they did he would sit down for a spell. His men knew, and they loved him for his nerve. It was soldier's talk that "Ike" Eisenhower, a West Point plebe when the Colonel was a first-classman, had something to do with keeping Paddy up front. The arrangement suited old Paddy right down to the ground. France, beamed the ruddy Colonel, was his "graduation exercise" as a footslogger...
...glistening now. And the imperturbable Commander Henry Howard Caldwell, who calmly flew his plane back from Rabaul on Nov. 5, 1943 with a dead photographer and a wounded gunner aboard, a plane with 154 bullet holes and one wheel and half an aileron gone, was behaving like an Annapolis plebe at one of the Navy football games-which also helped to make Caldwell famous...
...Priesthood. By 1903 he was a plebe at the Naval Academy, where he was known to his classmates as a sober young man, nicknamed "Sprew," who always got seasick on summer cruises. High in his class, he was selected to study electrical engineering at Schenectady. Afterwards he served briefly in China and returned to a shore-based job at Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock...
...Admiral King "Ernie," he always calls Marshall "General.") When Flicker set his mind on a soldier's career, none of the Republican Congressmen was willing to recommend the son of a stout Democrat for West Point. So George left for Virginia Military Institute. At the end of his plebe year, he ranked 35th; (when he was appointed Chief of Staff in 1939, he was 30th in rank). But from the very first year until he graduated (in 1901), George was always senior officer of his class. He always had one of the most American of virtues - a steady capacity...