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...earning part of their college expenses. One of the heaviest time consumers, physical training, poses a problem for all students; but for a student with a six-hour job the problem is particularly difficult. Not only does he have fewer hours in which to study, but the combination of PT exercise and the energy expended working leaves him below top efficiency and prevents his fulfilling other college requirements...
...ideal vacation is 36 holes of golf every day of the week.) After graduating from Brown University, he joined the Navy as an apprentice seaman, started his training as a "90day wonder," and elected to fight the war in small boats. He got his wish: skipper of a PT boat in the South Pacific, where he participated in the rescue of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, who had been adrift on a raft for 21 days. Later, Kennedy's squadron also rescued Lieut. John Kennedy (no kin, now the junior Senator from Massachusetts), whose boat had been rammed and sunk...
Kennedy's next" assignment was Newport, R.I., as instructor to a group of Russian naval officers, teaching tactics and maintenance of PT boats to be delivered under Lend-Lease. Shortly after the Normandy invasion, he was nicked in the knee by a piece of German shrapnel. The next day in Cherbourg he met Ann Newdick, a Red Cross worker whom he married two months later in Paris...
...sunny days, when Bermuda shorts and lecture notes reappear along the Charles' banks, the river is dotted with clumsy wherries, maneuvered by PT credit-conscious freshmen, laboriously tugging their ears, nervously trying to stay on a straight course...
...battles in early August 1943, I sighted a bold enemy boat of small size heading directly toward my destroyer of a larger type. Having no time to exchange de gunfires . . . my destroyer had to directly hit the enemy boat, slicing it in two. This boat happened to be the PT boat which was under your command...