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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lack of understanding. It is all too evident that the sooner an extensive program of exchange scholarships for the youths of our two nations-and all the other nations-are established, the sooner this condition will be removed and the sooner a world union of peoples will be in sight...
Hair-trigger critics might profitably bear in mind that the U.S. forces' real troubles on Okinawa came not from the errors of friends, but from the implacable resistance of a fanatical enemy. Even so, with victory in sight, the Okinawa campaign was almost exactly on its original schedule...
Example of the trend is The Woman in White. Otto Schultz, blinded in the Pacific, falls in love with gentle Jennifer Burton, whom he has never seen. Will Jennifer's father, Dr. Burton, be able to do anything for Otto's sight? Will Otto still love Jennifer if he no longer has to lean on her? Meanwhile, Otto has managed to slip across several effective plugs for international cooperation...
Esteemed through six major wars and scores of minor ones, in peacetime the Army influence has always been suspect. Yet the sight of West Point on parade is always heart-quickening.. One good and typical reason could be found in the young stalwart who led the parade this week. Chosen by the Tactical Officers last June to command the Corps of Cadets during his final year, First Cadet Captain Robert Evans ("Woody") Woods was not necessarily the brainiest (he was 605th at graduation), the most personable, nor the most popular member of his class. He was chosen because...
...best-hated man on the campus. He wrote plays with such titles as Mabel, the Beautiful Shopgirl, and played the feminine leads himself. Sex-obsessed, he sat up nights reading Krafft-Ebing and Havelock Ellis, poring over accounts of the trial of Oscar Wilde. He fought every boy in sight, bought a .45-caliber revolver and talked sullenly of suicide. "It may well be," says Biographer Adams mildly, "that he was still in some confusion about himself...