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...asked Charles Scribner, Medical Corpsman of Rochester, Mich, who had just come off the ridge with a load of wounded, what it was like over there on the unnamed real estate...
...point. They moved in single file, on both sides of the road, for down the center came more wounded. They came in jeeps, four to a jeep, at 3 m.p.h. Medics riding with them did the best they could to make their wounds less painful. One downy-faced corpsman stroked an old, hard-faced sergeant's head above his ripped face and kept saying, "You'll be fine, Sarge...
...been influenced by the Impressionists, by the simplified landscapes of Gauguin, and by such far-off painters as Winslow Homer. Among the more outstanding exhibitors were amateur Archeologist-Teacher Walter Battiss, whose paintings of grazing animals and intrepid hunters were deliberately patterned on prehistoric Bushman drawings, and ex-Medical Corpsman Alexis Preller, who combined something of the lurid colors and slick forms of the Mexican muralists with the subject-matter of his own South Africa...
...center slot Charlie Glynn, six-foot ex-Air Corpsman, is holding a slight edge over Jack Fisher of the ubiquitious Fisher brothers. Both of them have looked good in the early drills, and both will see action in the Connecticut contest--and all others. Left guard is being held down by Nick Rodis, another six-footer. Rodis hails from Nashua, New Hampshire, where he shone in three sports, and he comes to Cambridge with three years of football on service teams behind him. Backing up the leaders in that center of the line are a host of capable replacements, including...
Business, law, engineering, foreign service, and medicine courses are very popular. "One of the major disillusionments likely to come to the veteran who has served as a medical corpsman or in one of the mechanical branches of the services would be to find he lacks the scholastic aptitude to become a doctor or an engineer, that he can be a technician but not a professional man. He must be protected against that disillusionment by guidance," says McCarthy...