Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dave became inseparable; they plowed through the Voice of America investigation together, and Roy cheerfully shared credits with Dave. They would fly down to Washington from New York on Monday, take adjoining rooms at the Statler Hotel for the week, then fly back on Friday night for a weekend of nightclubbing. (Favorite haunt: the Stork Club's Cub Room.) At McCarthy's wedding last September, Cohn pushed Schine into a family wedding picture (much to Joe's annoyance). This idyllic state of gamboling was suddenly interrupted last summer by the harsh note of a bugle: Gerard David...
...time Roy succeeded remarkably well. Orders went out from the Secretary of the Army's office to the commanding general at Fort Dix that Private Dave Schine was to get night and weekend passes during his eight weeks of basic training. The word was passed down the line that Schine was a VIP, and every weekend a chauffeur-driven Cadillac would whisk him away from his comrades-in-arms (who get a weekend pass about four times in the eight weeks). Only once did Schine pull K.P. duty. One afternoon his squad leader hastily called a group...
...Cohn also requested that Private Schine be made available for committee work while he was undergoing basic training at Fort Dix. Mr. Stevens said that, if necessary to complete pending committee work, Private Schine would be permitted to leave the post on weekends [and] in the evening . . . Normally, said the Army, soldiers in their first four weeks of basic training at Fort Dix are not permitted to leave the post in the evenings nor are they given weekend passes. This rule is a local one and is subject to modification...
Private Schine was allowed to go on pass (weekend leave) until Sunday afternoon, when he was required to return to Fort...
House applications will go out to all freshmen this morning, Dean Watson announced over the weekend...