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...Army and by Harvard students as an easy way to spend four years. The Army tolerated the situation because the prestige of having R. O. T. C. units at the Big Three colleges seemed to justify easing the requirements. The students did more than tolerate it; they ate it up. The course was filled by boys who didn't particularly care about being officers, but who loved polo and appreciated the value of a good strong...
...testimonials from unlikely bigwigs like Novelist Pearl Buck. Said she: "If Mayor LaGuardia and Hitler only would get together and dunk a couple of doughnuts, they would see life through the same rose-colored glasses." Standing on his head atop Manhattan's Chanin Building, Flagpole Sitter Shipwreck Kelly ate 13 doughnuts one Friday the 13th...
...days of my life." But most of the speech was on domestic issues, and here the old campaigner really went to town. He was sarcastic, sly, arch, tough, ironic, intimate, confidential. He ad libbed, he laughed, rolled his head sidewise, lifted his eyes in mock horror. The audience ate it up. Newsman Ted Alford, of the anti-Roosevelt Kansas City Star, said: "He's all the Barrymores rolled into...
...early tank act a man named Blatz, apparently completely submerged, ate a banana, played the trombone, pretended to go to sleep while reading a newspaper. Veterans declare the submergence was real...
...Presented the Army & Navy Legion of Valor's annual medal to 14-year-old Donn Fendler of Rye, N. Y. Boy Scout Fendler, who had his hair slicked for the occasion, ate berries and kept his head while lost in the Maine woods for seven days in July...