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Before dodging all of the bricks coming his way, he will wish for a foxhole a mile deep, and will have earned more than one Purple Heart. I know from experience, as I passed up my discharge bonus and endeavored at that time to organize a vet movement against further Treasury raids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 30, 1946 | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

That Lamar tutors the boxing team in addition to the freshmen, and Boston the wrestlers, has struck the imagination of happy onlookers. But secret sources figure that a large number of proficient non-vet entering men may prevent the battle from coming to a showdown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman, Third Football Outlook Muddled As Yet | 9/19/1946 | See Source »

...colleges had not been flooded-as Chicago's Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins and others feared-with "educational hobos." Most veterans seemed grateful for the help they got, more than glad to work out the difference. For vets out for an easy time, the 52-20 club (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was a simpler solution. But many a vet at college still felt that the Government had promised to underwrite the whole cost of his education. So did some veteran-conscious congressmen. Three bills to increase allotments died when the 79th Congress adjourned, may be up again next session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: No Hobos | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...Student's Participation Ticket enough to get the organization out of debt. Or did the price of handballs go up with the murder of OPA, causing increased operating costs To tax a student's wife, already hard pressed to find an occasional evening's recreation within her vet-husband's 90-buck budget, an extra 40-odd percent for a swim is a practice that surely will not bring praise to the Harvard Athletic Association. John Lawrence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 7/26/1946 | See Source »

...prize catches (so far, 132 of the 1,000 tagged have been hooked). Richard Lavesque, nine-year-old polio victim, walked from his home for the first time in two years, took 35? worth of equipment to the edge of White Bear Lake, landed a tagged sunfish. War Vet Elmer Hauge poled a pike at Pequot Lakes-its jaw tag was the lucky number 1,000. And I. O. Bane of Deer River, who caught a tagged fish on June 23, returned to the same hole last week and landed another. His present problem: what to do with two batches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fish Story | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

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