Word: plebes
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There is one outstanding freshman practicing with the Yardlings who won't play a game all year, but may be of help to Jordan next year. He is Mario Ricci, a transfer student from the Naval Academy at Annapolis, where he played in the plebe backfield last year...
...plebe, he was assigned for guidance to 2nd Classman Dwight Eisenhower...
...Navy's crews (varsity, j.v. and plebe), the Maxwell Stevenson Cup, in a clean sweep over Cornell and Columbia; at Annapolis...
...Mannix was a flop at Annapolis. On review, his uniform and brace were technically correct, but the total effect reminded the commandant of somebody "going duck hunting." The Mannix temperament was incorrigibly informal for Annapolis, and the Navy gave up at the end of his plebe year (1932). Dan Mannix found a new vocation for himself-and the makings of a lively little book-when he stopped to watch Flamo, the fire-eater, in a traveling carnival show...
...hired by a producer ostensibly to stage the cadet corps' annual show, actually to lure the producer's singing nephew (Gordon MacRae) from an Army career to show business. Brass-baiting ex-G.I. Cagney rags the cadets so energetically that the corps makes him a plebe for a while to keep him on a leash-and, of course, to teach him to love West Point the hard way. From there on, the film drags in Flirtation Walk, the honor system, the show-must-go-on, a pretentious cantata celebrating the Academy and such production-number props...