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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Major Thomas D. Howie ("See you in St. Lô") went to the Citadel, and so did Korean Ace Captain Dolphin Overton. At the Citadel, a plebe is still a Doowillie, Dumbrod, Dumbsmack or Duwack; he must still "crawl" for an upperclassman. If a cadet asks, "What do plebes rank?", the Doowillie must reply: "Sir, the president's cat, the commandant's dog, the waitresses in the mess hall and all the colonels at Clemson [College...
Last week, the Citadel (enrollment 1,393) welcomed a new man whose rank is in no doubt. After receiving a hero's ticker-tape welcome in Manhattan, he had headed for South Carolina to accept the $12,000 job as successor to the Citadel's 86-year-old president, General Charles P. Summerall, onetime U.S. Army Chief of Staff. In time, the new president will also be something to remember. His name: Mark Clark, General, U.S.A...
...Israel and the neighboring Arab states. President Eisenhower dispatched Eric A. Johnston, 57, president of the Motion Picture Association of America and chairman of the International Development Advisory Board. Johnston departed with the rank of ambassador and a presidential promise of "full support" and "the widest possible latitude" in carrying out his mission. The task: lessening Arab-Israeli tension by promoting cooperation on specific projects and problems, particularly irrigation and refugees (see FOREIGN NEWS), rather than by trying to sell an overall blueprint for peace...
...mountains on muleback, slept on dirt floors and ate with the peasants. No fighting front was too hot to keep them away. Once with Paul at the wheel, the royal jeep took a short cut through a mined road. The Queen picked up her husband's baton of rank, and. waving it over his head in a burst of feminine illogic, vowed to bash his head in if he dared hit so much as a single mine...
...long ago, when stripping an officer of his rank for reasons of cowardice or unbecoming behavior, the armed services would rip off his epaulets and break his sword. Today's Air Force is less symbolic but is also less strict in its requirements for being drummed...