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...violent tennis; likes to cook elaborate dishes. Says Lucille: "Everything is fine with him all the time. Wanta play cards? Fine. Play games? Fine. go for a swim? Great." There's only one problem: "Desi is a great thermostat sneaker-upper and I'm a thermostat sneaker-downer. Cold is the one thing that isn't great with...
...Stay-Downers. All of the "stay-downers," like Goodwin, are reserve officers, most of them World War II combat veterans with growing families, mortgages and civilian careers. Besides their personal problems, they complain that regular officers are hogging the soft stateside jobs while reservists go to Korea, that the planes they must fly are often poorly maintained. Flying, said one, "has developed into a poison for me." Others are simply disgusted with the Korean stalemate. Said one stay-downer: "We don't see any sense in giving our lives for a cause that even the civilians are completely apathetic...
...debate waxed angry in Australia's House of Representatives. The government's attempt to ratify the John Foster Dulles blueprint for Pacific peace stirred old hatreds of the Japanese. Cried Alex Downer, 42, who spent 3½ years in a Japanese prison camp: "We are asked to endorse an act of folly for which future generations will have...
...counter Old Soldier Downer, the Liberal coalition put up a speaker whose war record entitled him to talk "in the same fashion. Interior Minister W. S. Kent Hughes, 56, fought in Gallipoli and Palestine in World War I, was a Rhodes scholar and an Olympic hurdler between wars, and in World War II fought in Malaya as a staff officer of the 8th division. Captured at the same time as Downer, he also spent 3½ years in Japanese prison camps. Said Kent Hughes in a dramatic and emotional speech: "Only those who have passed along the purgatorial path...
...assistant director will be Barbara A. Connolly '49 Miss Connolly has been teaching this year at the Milwaukee-Downer School in Milwaukee, and will come to Radcliffe next full...