Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suggested as members-at-large to the Executive Council are Walter B. Neuberg, Jr. '43, Robert J. Donahue '44, Louis H. Pollak '44, and E. Randolph Biddle...
...Army architects who planned the Air Corps's Randolph Field near San Antonio made one mistake. They forgot about sidewalks, and people there have to walk in the paved streets or on the brown, famished grass. Otherwise the post is one of the Army's finest. On the east and west sides are two wide, grassed flying fields. Between, in precisely patterned octagons and circles, are separate rows of shops, barracks, officers' and noncoms' homes, all converging on the white, stone-towered administration building Where the post commandant rules...
Last week Randolph Field lost the quiet, -steely-eyed officer who has been its commandant for three years. Colonel John B. Brooks was promoted to Brigadier General, transferred to the new Westover Field (at Chicopee, Mass.) to command a bombing wing. His new stars pleased General Brooks, but he was bound to regret leaving Randolph. For the Air Corps's biggest job just now is training pilots, and Randolph is the centre of the job. Under John Brooks, the course had been drastically changed and speeded up. Under his successor, Colonel Idwal H. Edwards, it is soon...
...Corps cadets used to get a year's schooling at Randolph and nearby Kelly Field. Randolph gave them their primary training in simple, low-horsepowered planes, and an intermediate ("basic") course in faster, higher-powered (400-450 h.p.) ships. They finished at Kelly on still bigger & faster ships, were then ready for tactical duties, second lieutenants' commissions. Early this year, to meet the expanding Air Corps's demand for more pilots, the courses at Randolph and Kelly were telescoped to ten weeks each. Primary training was farmed out to 18 private schools...
...policy of having Harvard bands, just as much as possible. By this I don't mean excluding name bands--the more we have of them the better, as shown last night by Vaughn Monroe. My point is this: if a house has a choice between Stan Brown or Russ Randolph and some local outfit--why not give the home boys a break...