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Over the Bordeaux-Merignac aerodrome in southwestern France, pilots find it wise to buzz the field once before trying to land. Buzzing disperses the sheep that graze contentedly between the runways. At one end of the field the 126th Bombardment Wing of the U.S. Air Force makes its headquarters...
...fact, that at first the dean could not believe them. But just as a precaution, he called Starr in and asked him pointblank if the rumors were true. Yes, Starr admitted, they were: ever since he had been at State, he had also been a full-time student at Southwestern College, four miles away...
...bill, he was well into his senior year, and his record was every bit as good as it was at State. He was making As and Bs, was sports editor of the annual, wrote a column for the paper, covered campus news for the Appeal. The only trouble with Southwestern, said Starr, was that it didn't keep him busy enough: "There were so many subjects I wanted to learn about. And being lazy by nature, I thought it would be good self-discipline to sign up for them." When Southwestern could not give him all the courses...
Neither college suspected his double life. Neither knew that promptly at 8:30 a.m. every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Starr would start out at Southwestern, attend courses until noon, then motorcycle over to State for classes until 3, or to one of his many jobs. On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays he reversed the procedure, spending the morning at State and most afternoons at Southwestern...
...months passed, Starr seemed to thrive under his double routine, even though it meant working far into the night and often over a bewildering assortment of courses-Greek for Southwestern, business law for State, biology for Southwestern, mythology for State. Meanwhile, he happily pursued his extracurricular jobs. He never lost a pound, never appeared tired, and his work never fell off. Last week, Memphis State decided that college policy could no longer permit such goings-on, and Starr reluctantly resigned from the campus. But that did not mean that he intended to change his habits much...