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...eyes (20/40 in one eye,* 20/80 in the other) got there after two months of exercises, has since become a flyer. Another boy was refused by the Coast Guard for 20/100 vision, got in after a month and a half of eye training. Neither the Army nor Navy keeps tab of how many of their men have eye-muscled their way in, but the American Optometric Association has records...
...Army & Navy way is to set up Price Adjustment boards, which keep tab on the books of all contractors. When a contractor's unit costs start down and his profits start up, one of the boards calls him in. Intelligent businessmen, many of whom are making more money than they intended or even hoped, usually welcome this invitation to renegotiate the contract at a lower price. If they don't, the board asks, in effect: How would you like to explain your profits to the Vinson or the Truman committee? Negotiation proceeds from there...
...board of trustees. Branch Rickey is a working Methodist: he doesn't drink or cuss. His greatest oath is "Judas Priest." Not only has he an encyclopedic knowledge of the professional skills and foibles of the 500-odd ballplayers he controls, but he keeps an extensive tab on their private morals...
There are a few other Sophs you might tab, such as the picket-runners Billings, Tobin and Messer, and the running guard, "Spike" Sisson, and Bud Cushing, a whale of a center as Syracuse will attest, and the big tackle, Anderson. But I'm just about running to the end of my list...
...over the eyes; they had misfit helmets, tattered shoes, antediluvian weapons (Habe used an 1891, 20-lb. Remington). The first mild night air-raid revealed their cowardice: in an inn, when the lights went on again, steel helmets peeped shamefully from beneath the tables. One of dozens of Habe tab leaux: a shamed, helmeted face, trying to laugh it off, beside the knees of a peasant woman who had not moved from her chair...