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Last week, as old Bull Collegians prepared to "go down" from Cambridge, they ate a final dinner with Provost Sheppard and other masters. Main course: Southern fried chicken...
White-haired Dr. John T. Sheppard, Provost of King's College, had given the G.I. College its name. Noting that most of the G.I.s had been quartered in the famed old Bull Hotel, because Cambridge's colleges were overcrowded he told the students and U.S. Army Major George Dewey Blank, their boss: "As the word 'Hotel' sounds so very undignified, I just call you simply 'Bull College.' And you, Major Blank, I refer to as the 'Big Bull...
...Washington gossiped that one of the jobs, and the chairmanship, will go to Sam H. Husbands, 53, president of Defense Plant Corp. (RFC Boss Jesse Jones once said Husbands "knows more about banks than any man in the U.S.") Another job is expected to go to James Sheppard, Los Angeles attorney. Lieut. Colonel Joseph P. Woodlock, onetime executive of the Crucible Steel Co., now executive assistant to Will Clayton, is an outside choice for the third job. But Washington also gossiped that the President may soon ask Congress to junk the board and hand the job back...
...Nippers. In Harlem, William Sheppard Jr., 7, and his brother Ronald, 3, killed a half-pint of sherry which they found behind the stove, were discovered unconscious in their beds...
...Hershey, Neb., a town of about 500 people. Ben and his kid brother Fred (now overseas with an engineer outfit) volunteered for the Army two days after Pearl Harbor, were accepted a month later. Ben landed in the Air Forces and started to run his personal gantlet at Sheppard Field...