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Most of the world's undergraduates last week were still on vacation. But on one of the world's largest campuses, some 3,000 were taking final exams. From Bremen, in cool north Germany, to Asmara, high on an African plateau, American servicemen and a handful of civilian employees trooped to their classrooms, sweated over questions that ranged from literature to logistics. These students were members of the University of Maryland's College of Special and Continuation Studies...
...shipping clerk after a high-school education in his native Omaha. Full of Irish charm and aggressiveness, he served as a World War I naval lieutenant, began his career in the Hearst organization, without knowing it, when he met Mrs. Hearst at a party given for World War I servicemen. Charmed with Lieut. Berlin, Mrs. Hearst got him a postwar job selling advertising for Hearst's Motor Boating magazine. He was such a star salesman that he rose to be general manager of all Hearst magazines in 1930, helped keep the whole empire from foundering in its Depression crisis...
Mission Accomplished. In Madison, Wis., after cardsharps had clipped him for $48, a wrist watch and a cigarette lighter, Corporal John Ramzy told the judge that he had come to town to check on reports that gamblers were fleecing servicemen...
...gold Johannesburg hotel room one day last week, ex-Royal Air Force Ace Adolph Gysbert ("Sailor") Malan, 40, presided over the first National Congress of his newly formed War Veterans Action Movement. On the wall behind him hung a tiny stucco dancing girl; in front sat 85 sturdy ex-servicemen, ranging from white-mustached former brasshats to fresh-faced youths...
...defense of the deferment by test system, Hershey said deferring bright college students is no more discriminatory than is rejection of some men as 4-F's, or the commissioning of some servicemen as officers...