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Instead the Rangers are picked for intelligence and endurance. Like Commando recruits, about 50% of them fail the course and are sent back to their old units. The survivors fit no common pattern. Commander of the Rangers now in training is slight, friendly Major Randolph Milholland, 36, onetime cost accountant from Cumberland, Md. One of his captains, Lloyd Marr, 31, of Lamesa, Tex., trained in civilian life by working up statistics for the U.S. Treasury Department. In commando training, bulk and muscle are assets. But the training-wise instructors know they are not indispensable. A stout heart counts most...
Your friend, Randolph Ridgely." EDWARD F. CORSON, M.D. Plymouth Meeting...
Anybody dozing at last week's Congressional tax hearings (an easy feat) might have picked up some startling impressions between cat naps. Testifying before the House Ways & Means Committee was the Treasury's neat, mild-mannered General Counsel Randolph Paul. In view of the Treasury's last-ditch opposition to the famed Ruml income tax plan, some of Mr. Paul's statements were enough to make anyone sit up. Said...
Ghastly visions of plants that eat flesh have troubled the dreams of many imaginative men. In William Randolph Hearst's American Weekly a romancer named Dr. Carle Liche once described what he saw one frightful tree do to a native girl in Madagascar. ". . . Then while her awful screams . . . rose wildly . . . the great leaves slowly rose and stiffly . . . closed about the dead and hampered victim with the silent force of a hydraulic press. . . . The retracted leaves of the great tree kept their upright position during ten days, then when I came one morning they were prone again . . . and nothing...
...Treasury Secretary's ideas have not changed much since his last unsuccessful brush on Capitol Hill. He and his top adviser, Treasury Counsel Randolph Paul, have abandoned opposition to compulsory savings. But the Secretary still opposes a sales tax. He counts strongly on three proposals Congress turned down last year: taxation of State and municipal bonds, compulsory joint returns for husband & wife, elimination of the depletion allowance for oil wells and mines. On the famed pay-as-you-go income tax plan, suggested by Chairman Beardsley Ruml of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, his position is ambiguous...