Word: pointers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...February 4 issue of the West Point "Pointer," published for the inmates of a Southern military college an article about their school, briefing isolated cadets on the life of typical "Joe College...
Loretta Young is a Park Avenue widow who finds herself temporarily broke. She gets a scholarship to Pointer College, where she joins her pretty daughter (Betty Lynn) in pursuit of higher education and a youngish English professor (Van Johnson). With the help of the "Kissing Oak" and other standard campus props, Mother gets her man, and Betty gets compensation in the form of a stripling...
Kirkland gained an equally impressive win over Leverett with a score of 49-35. High pointer in this case was Deacon Dan Rourke, with 20 points...
Colonel Gordon E. Textor, a West Pointer with no newspaper experience, started the shakeup. The way it was done left the Zeitung staff dizzy. First Textor fired Foreign Editor Hans Lehmann for pro-Nazi leanings, though Textor had refused to approve Lehmann's dismissal for the same reason only three months ago. When twelve other German staffers resigned in protest, Textor named Bruce Buttles, an ex-Christian Science Monitor reporter and a civilian employee of the Army, as Zeitung publisher...
...Chicago last week the American Academy of Dermatology and Syphilology got a pointer from Temple University Psychiatrist O. Spurgeon English: look for emotional troubles in a patient with eczema. "He cannot weep but his skin weeps for him. Eczema patients are usually depressed, and long for love, but they can't stand love when they get it." Love, English summarized, "is an itch one can't scratch...