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...principal requirement, stressed above all others for admission to Candidate Schools, is evidence of outstanding qualities of leadership. Although the educational background of a candidate is a most important element, in determining his selection, it is not determinative. While an academic degree may be a favorable factor, equivalent training and experience in civil life is equally acceptable to the Army
Fine acting, expert photography, and an excellent script depicting a modern Florence Nightingale make "Girl from Leningrad" fine film-fare. With its authentic Mannerheim Line scenes showing the Soviet troops in action against Finland and Germany as a background for a Red Cross nurse romance it packs a terrific wallop...
Democracy's citizens must have an intellectual background sweeping enough for them to understand the world which they rule. They must have the critical faculty of assembling facts and doing their own thinking. And they must be able to recognize buncombe at fifty paces. True, Harvard and other American colleges have fallen far short of this goal of preparing their graduates for intelligent participation in a democratic community. Like almost every one, they have taken what little democracy we have had without enough inspection and too much for granted. But there is a vast difference between their goal...
Many object to the fishtail on other grounds than legal ones. The breast-stroke was probably the first stroke over used, and it has been retained as a racing event largely because of sentiment over its historical background. Since Mann's proposal would make the classic breast-stroke unrecognizable and more and more like the crawl, these dissenters fool that the breast-stroke should be retained as it is or else completely abandoned in favor of the crawl...
Last week, after 19 years of baseball, during which he tried to conceal his intellectual background, Catcher Berg at last removed his mask. Quitting the game he loved even more than his books, Morris Berg, A.B., LL.D, accepted a Government appointment as roving envoy to Mexico and Central America-a good-will post created by the Office for Coordination of Commercial and Cultural Relations between the American Republics...