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Then the Eighth went south to clean up what was left of the Philippines. In 44 days it made six major and 24 minor landings. Eichelberger was all over the place, sleeping among his soldiers on the ground - once, so close to a Jap airfield that the racket of enemy airplane engines kept them awake most of the night. MacArthur wrote this commendation: "a model of what a light but aggressive com mand can accomplish in rapid exploitation...
Only one more match remains for the Crimson squad this term; on Saturday afternoon the racket-wielders will play host to an invading team from Dartmouth. This will be the first contest between the two colleges in any sport thus far this season...
...better as a bellboy. The naked white prostitutes paid no attention to him when he delivered bootleg whiskey to their rooms, though their customers sometimes objected. Because he had never been in jail, he was picked by racketeers as front for a movie-ticket racket. He made $50 the first week. But he knew he was headed for the chain gang. He saved his money, stole everything he could lay hands on, pawned it, and fled to Memphis. There he began to read Mencken and Sinclair Lewis, and to see the white men around him in a different light...
Steamboats and Gold. Much of the country along the Missouri is still almost as wild as it was then. While Stanley Vestal was writing The Missouri near Sioux City, Iowa, the wild geese, held up in their spring flight by a six-inch snow, made such a racket that sleep was impossible. Through its loveliest country the Missouri is rich in historic sites that almost nobody ever sees because nobody ever uses the river for travel any more -old campgrounds, old trading posts and forts, Indian battlefields, old steamboat landings that date from the days when river boats pushed...
...Maynard Hutchins, of the University of Chicago, has warned of "educational hoboes"--veterans, unable to get jobs, who will be offered a chance to live at Government expense simply by going to school. In an article in Collier's magazine. Hutchins said, "Educational institutions, as the big-time football racket shows cannot resist money." "The GI Bill of Rights gives them a chance to get more money than they have ever dreamed of . . . They will not want to keep out un-qualified veterans; they will not want to expel those who fail." Hutchins recommended nation-wide examinations to screen...