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...touchdowns, and twice he came through with perfect dropkicks, the second one putting the Elis ahead for the first time that afternoon. Then, with the partisan Yale Bowl crowd in an uproar, Booth took an Army punt on his own 20 and twisted 80 yards through the entire Cadet team for the score that clinched the game...
Joel Landau and Sandy Dodge of the Crimson tied meet standards in the hurdle and dash events, and Cadet two-miler Dick Greene established a new mark with a 9:23.3 clocking. Shot putter Keith Nance and Bill Hanne in the 1000 were other Army record-breakers...
...Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn, the Democrats stole the Lincoln Day show by laying on the biggest celebration of them all, right there in Washington. Democratic leaders in both houses set up a solemn joint session to hear the U.S. Army band play patriotic tunes, the U.S. Coast Guard cadet chorus sing Civil War songs (Dixie, Battle Hymn of the Republic), and Actor Fredric March read the Gettysburg Address...
Newly promoted to sergeant, Cadet Simeon Rylski of Valley Forge (Pa.) Military Academy, who until 1946 had a country (Bulgaria) to call him King Simeon II, settled down with Roommate Richard J. Sands for a session of rifle cleaning. Cadet Rylski remains youthfully sure that happier days will be here again: "Communists cannot rule forever. Despotisms have always fallen. Why should this one be an exception? I can wait, for I am young...
When a West Point court-martial decided that Plebe Edgar Allan Poe was not officer material, it rendered a sound judgment. It was not only that the overage (22) cadet had been a U.S. army private, that he drank, ran up heavy debts and asserted (falsely) that Benedict Arnold was his grandfather. Poe was a poet and a born soldier of misfortune -ill-armed against the world. Life was a bad dream to him; he is remembered today not for his success in coming to terms with it but for the fantasies and fictions that celebrated his defeat...