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...hang on until a ripe o'l age, but Browne & Nichols (Cambridge, Mass.) lost one last week not on account of his old age but on account of his youth. The Army claimed Browne & Nichols' Headmaster Geoffrey Whitney Lewis. Undaunted, the school elected in his place another youngster: 36-year-old Assistant Professor Warren Seyfert of Harvard, which is just next door. A teacher in Harvard's Graduate School of Education, Seyfert is rated one of the faculty's ablest men. He believes that New England preparatory schools are still too hidebound and classical, plans...
...recent combat, an untried youngster missed one Jap Zero after another. "Look, Joe," said Sergeant Silva, "you're not leading them enough, and your shots are going behind them." Silva grabbed the gun and squinted from the Flying Fortress turret. Four Zeros flashed by. Three of them, perhaps the fourth fell apart under Silva's fire. "See, Joe?" Silva yelled. During the same fracas, the pilot inquired over the Fortress interphone: "Are you firing at the enemy?" Sergeant Silva replied: "Sir, I've already shot down two, goddamit...
...radio would be a cultural influence for the natives. A half-dozen bumptious young men of God arrived a few years ago, and tried to recruit the rest of the mission staff for Naziism. But what-if the stories were true- could be funnier than a potbellied native youngster, ramming out his hand in a ludicrous Heil? The few Australian colonials at Salamaua, Lae and Port Moresby found it very hard to worry about Finschhafen...
...champion boxer, who bashfully hangs his head when reporting another sniper potted. Another is tall, lean Joe Longknife from a Montana reservation. On a recent raid he rose up out of tall grass, killed ten Japs with 16 shots, dispersed the rest with hand grenades. When he was a youngster Joe listened to tales of raiding parties told him by his father. Old Longknife, and his grandfather, Old Old Longknife...
...sessions, a six-day week or a longer school day. Object: to graduate students earlier to college or defense jobs. Objection: although acceleration would be restricted to selected students, many delegates feared that it would lower standards for high schools, observed that there was no way to accelerate a youngster's growing...