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Reach for the Sky. (J. Arthur Rank). "Damn!" thought R.A.F. Cadet Douglas Bader (rhymes with ah'd her) as he lay in the smoking wreckage of his tiny biplane and inspected his shattered leg. "I won't be able to play rugger on Saturday." Cadet Bader was right. By Saturday both his legs were off. "Sssh!" he heard a nurse say. "There's a boy dying in there." The sick man stiffened. "Dying! We'll see," he thought grimly, and began to fight for his life...
...fact, 21-year-old Cadet Bader fought with a ferocious courage that amazed his doctors, who had given him up for dead. After that he astounded the artificial-leg industry, which assured him (as he hurried off to take his best girl dancing) that no man with two artificial legs could so much as walk without a cane. He then horrified the R.A.F.'s brass, which nervously denied him a peacetime flying commission. And ultimately, during the Battle of Britain, he painfully distressed the German Luftwaffe. For the few to whom so many owed so much owed much indeed...
...varsity had to wait until the top of the eighth to score the winning marker, again without the benefit of a hit. After Cleary walked, Simourian tried to sacrifice him to second, but the Cadet first baseman muffed the throw, advancing Cleary to third. Hastings drove him across with a tremendous sacrifice fly to center...
...lago of this interlude is a cadet officer named Jocko De Paris (Ben Gazzara), a rising young sadist who has already learned that it is not enough to torture people-the real satisfaction comes when they can be made to beg for it. By an intricate series of Machiavellian maneuvers, De Paris involves four cadets, who think the whole sinister business is an almost innocent practical joke, in a plot. The idea is to siphon a mort of whisky through an enema nozzle into a fifth cadet and deposit his senseless body on the quadrangle one dark night. Next morning...
Clifford A. Rand, Jr.: Lowell; House Comm.; WHRB, Adv. Mgr., Dir., Treas., Announcer, Prod.; Fr. soccer; Intramural sports; ROTC cadet capt.; ROTC Council...