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George Dysart 1L, acting chairman of the Veterans Affairs Committee of the unit, presented the sole question of policy in a meeting designed for brevity in view of imminent examinations. Pointing to present inconsistencies between aid to ex-servicemen under the educational provisions of the GI Bill and under on-the-job training, he asserted that the two-year limitation on the latter must be extended to compare favorably with the four year maximum for veterans at college...
Keep 'Em Guessing. Caniff's house on Tor Ridge, a spectacular modern affair-designed and owned by Neighbor Henry Varnum Poor, was a port of call for scores of flyers during the war. The tabletalk kept Caniff abreast of servicemen's slang; the grateful flyers paid their bread-&-butter calls by buzzing the house. As a favor, the Army flew him across the U.S. in a jolting 6-24, to give him the feel of it. He can "still hear the nyaaa-aaaa-aaaa of those motors-and feel the cold, going on hour after hour. Jeez...
...Boone City soda fountain, and Harold Russell, an ex-sailor who has a couple of steel hooks where his elbows end. As vice-president in charge of small loans, March finds it difficult and against his nature to insist on "bankers' collateral" on every loan he makes to ex-servicemen. Russell finds the sledding tough and believes that his sympathetic parents and girlfriend have only pity for his plight. Andrews runs into trouble--with a floozy boomtown bride, with his soda-jerk job, and with March's young daughter, played by Teresa Wright, with whom he falls in love...
...biggest industrialists, philanthropists, and men-about-culture. Brougham had fought long, loudly and effectively for bigger & better playgrounds as "living memorials" to the dead of World War II, "instead of statues of some guy sitting on an iron horse." His wartime promotions had raised $250,000 for servicemen's recreation...
...Pollster Elmo Roper reported to FORTUNE that if a general runs for President he will have hard sledding among veterans. In the first nationwide survey of veteran voters, he found that only 16% of ex-servicemen would support General Mac-Arthur, only 30% Ike Eisenhower...