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...seemed a severe, regrettable but eminently clear-cut and righteous act of disciplinary surgery, performed in the interests of the Army's loftiest ideals. The facts, as announced, were few and terse. The Academy's honor code-by which every cadet is not only duty-bound to shun lying, cheating and stealing, but to report his own transgressions and those of his fellows -had been broken. Academy officials had learned, from one cadet's report, of wholesale cribbing for examinations. Concerned for the Academy's integrity, the Army then arranged for an investigation by a three...
...blue-grey Quicksilver, a sleek, new, 31-foot hydroplane. Devil-may-care Mathiot, a Portland, Ore. tugboat operator, was not really expecting Quicksilver to win the cup. Neither were Seattle's boat-racing fans, who turned out at nearby Lake Washington to cheer their hometown entry, Slo-Mo-Shun V, which set two records in the first of three final runs -97.826 m.p.h. for a three-mile lap, 91.766 m.p.h. for the 30-mile heat...
...less patience. They must do their share of searching for the never-never land where science and common sense meet. It will be a country where "the greatest scholar [will] confess himself the equal of the child." No mind will be so "debauched with learning" that it will shun the simple skepticism that blows the lid off everything...
...statement of his own credo: "We want [the Times] to be a mirror in which the community can see its full face. If the face appears smudged sometimes it will not be the fault of the newspaper . . . We won't seek controversy for the sake of controversy or shun it for the sake of peace . . ." It looked as if things would soon be livelier in Natchez...
...plot seems no less a banal fiction for patterning itself loosely on the true story of how the famed dance team of Adele & Fred Astaire broke up. The movie's Astaire and his sister-partner (Jane Powell) are musicomedy favorites who dabble in an occasional romance, but shun matrimony on the theory that they owe themselves exclusively to their joint career. When they go to London to do a show, romance pairs Jane with a young peer (Peter Lawford) and Fred with a chorus girl (competently played by Winston Churchill's daughter, Sarah...