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...Hell on the Hudson." West Point rules and traditions struck Plebe Robert Woods like a tidal wave on the morning after his mad dash to get there. Reporting to the cadet adjutant, he got this greeting: "Wipe that smile off, Mr. Dumbjohn, or whatever your name is! Brace up! Suck up your guts! More! Get rid of that gabardine coat! Get those shoulders back! Pull your chin in! Further! Further! Where 're you from? The Navy? What part of the Navy? Oh, Annapolis, eh? . . ." The next few minutes of scorn were enough to wither an asbestos monkey...
Woody swiftly learned that an order from a superior carried "the impact of a rifle shot" - and that everyone is superior to a plebe except "the Superintendent's dog, the Commandant's cat, the waiters in the Mess Hall, the Hell Cats (buglers), and all the Admirals in the whole - Navy." For the rest of the morning and all afternoon, indignity was piled on indignity. Between affronts, Woody lugged bed clothes, changed white shirt for grey, shut tled to & from the cadet store with supplies, learned about demeanor and demerits, drew a rifle, drilled, ran, crept, crawled, fell...
...keep track of her family, is Mrs. Simon Bolivar Buckner,* who was born Adele Blanc, in New Orleans, but moved to Kentucky "when she was a quadruped." Her elder son, Simon Bolivar III, is a captain in the Signal Corps in France, her younger son, William Claiborne, a plebe at West Point. The daughter, Mary, is studying at the University of California...
...Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, West Point's track & field men ran away with the I.C. 4-A indoor championships. They began demoralizing the opposition by taking first, second and third in the first event, the shot put. Felix ("Muscles") Blanchard, the 220-lb. plebe, set the pace with a 48 ft. 3½-in. heave. The Cadets took only two other firsts-against four, and one tie, for Navy-but Army placed in 13 events to pile up a record 73½-points. Navy, second with 55½, also topped the I.C.4-A winner's mark...
Hall made just two points, Back only five-while an unsung Navy plebe, left-handed Perry Nelson, stole the show. At halftime, Nelson had collected 15 points and his team led 25-to-24. Army, as usual, came back strong in the second half, got its fast-breaking offense into high gear. Although Navy surged back after losing Nelson on personal fouls, Army had the aggressive confidence to squeak through...