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Lock Step. The faculty had been strengthened with topnotch men drafted from civilian colleges. In 1941 the Academy had gathered unto itself J. Buroughs Stokes, a young educator with a doctor's degree from Harvard, had given him a commission and made him Assistant Secretary of the Academic Board...
As the draft hooked other educators, J. B. Stokes gaffed them and landed them on the Academy staff. Heads of departments remained, as always, regular Navy officers. But reserves and civilians took over the heaviest teaching load. The effect was refreshing. The difficulty the Academy now faces is keeping them...
Winston Churchill growled like an angry bulldog when Laborite M.P. Richard Stokes accused him of lying to the House of Commons (in a flowery praising of British tanks), demanded that Stokes "repeat his exact words," appeared mollified when Stokes substituted for the word "lie" the Victorian phrase, "terminological inexactitude."
Last week, to the few facts known about hepatitis' cause & cure, Dr. Joseph Stokes Jr. of the University of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia's Children's Hospital and Army Captain John R. Neefe added an important discovery. In the Journal of the American Medical Association they reported that...
Tom Stokes has kept himself half head and half legs ever since. He spends about as much time roving the nation as he spends in Washington. At least two of his reportorial exposes have resulted in Congressional investigations. Last week he was plugging away powerfully and persistently for another-of...