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...joined the infant Royal Flying Corps in 1916, he had just been an English gentleman, a graduate of Cambridge's Magdalene College (where he became an avid reader of Shakespeare), a rugby player, a colonial servant of the Empire stationed at Fiji, and a soldier in the Dorsetshire Regiment. But military aviation seized his intense mind and has occupied it ever since...
...Maltese with the George Cross. The citation: for gallant endurance. Chief Justice Borg accepted the medal and deposited it under a plinth in the main square opposite an old palace of the Grand Masters of the Knights of St. John. Over the plinth the King's Own Malta Regiment took up solemn sentry duty. Stoically the Maltese burrowed into their ancient island. Grimly, for the power and the glory and for Christendom, the island of the Knights fought...
...preparation for its Saturday attempts to fill the marching boots of the West Point cadets, the ROTC Regiment will go through a practice drill this afternoon, going over the same route that it will follow just before the Army game...
...become the No. 1 female blues singer. She queens the juke boxes within an inch of Bing Crosby ("than whom," says Dinah, "there is no whomer"). Her extracurricular "honors" have piled up like ticker tape. She was "Queen" of the Brooklyn Dodgers, "Queen" of Manhattan's famed Seventh Regiment, is "Sweetheart" of more Army camps than she can remember. At Manhattan's Butlers' Ball she was named "The Girl We Wish Would Come to Dinner...
...captain from the 11th Cavairy Division, Shannon was first an assistant professor, and was in command of the unit only from June until August, when he was promoted and went overseas. During that time, however, he took a major part in shaping the future policies of the baby regiment...