Word: youngest
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...Prayer. The new book concerns a religious-emotional crisis in the life of Franny Glass, youngest member of the clan, and tells how her brother Zooey argues, browbeats and jollies her out of it. Franny is first seen during a football weekend being met at the station by a young man named Lane Coutell. The train pulls in: "Like so many people who, perhaps, ought to be issued only a very probational pass to meet trains, he tried to empty his face of all expression that might quite simply, perhaps even beautifully, reveal how he felt about the arriving person...
...youngest general on active duty in the U.S. armed forces is Command Pilot Robert F. McDermott, 41. He was 109th in his West Point Class of 409 in 1943, won the Bronze Star and Air Medal with five Oak Leaf clusters flying a P-38 with the Ninth Air Force in World War II, graduated from Harvard Business School in 1950. Not long ago he belonged to that tiny covey of airmen who might some day soar to Chief of Staff. So when he began a teaching stint at the new Air Force Academy and did well enough...
Last week, as it launched its seventh eleven-month academic year with more (2,224) cadets than ever, the youngest service academy could well be proud of Dean McDermott's decision. He has al ready put over a rigorous "enrichment" program (since copied at Annapolis and West Point), in which more than three-fourths of the cadets slave for extra credit. He started a sabbatical program of sending instructors as far afield as Cambridge "to keep our staff up to date." He is pushing for a Master's program, the first at any service academy. Instead of congressional...
...five days and nights, the jumping, grunting, lifting, leaping and writhing went on. An 80-woman corps from Norway, the youngest among them 50 years old, performed precision calisthenics to the strains of Now Is the Hour. A shorts-clad German woman contingent got a big hand for an exhibition of ball throwing, even though they several times knocked the medicine ball into the orchestra seats. Young Englishmen flew nimbly on and off the gymnastic horses; 17 lovely young women from the Unifed Arab Republic banged sticks in unison; a troupe of muscle-flexing Danish maids rolled about the stage...
...judgment of his superiors, decisions on equipment allocation that enabled the S.P. to haul more freight for the Pacific war than any other railroad. In 1952, when the S.P. needed a new president, the board inevitably turned to Don Russell, who, at 51, became the line's youngest chief since the days of Founders Leland Stanford and Charles Crocker...