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Last week he turned up at the fighting fronts in a light grey flannel bush coat, khaki drill breeches, polo boots, Sam Browne belt, and an ancient stern-visored guardsman's cap, which he has clung to for years: it has been rebuilt three times. Neither at Dunkirk nor anywhere since then has he bothered to wear a steel helmet...
...also a stunningly funny old comic (Margaret Rutherford), playing the sort of tetched, tweedy Englishwoman whose lightest whisper is a yawp. As a spy-thriller, the picture would be no better than pleasantly, mediocre but for the unshakable British talent for investing bit-players at telephones, extras at lifeboat drill, and even the leading players with vitality, intelligence and a nodding acquaintance with actual life...
Swinging into action for the first time this season the combined V-12 and NROTC battalion takes over Soldiers Field this afternoon at 4 o'clock. This will be the first chance that Captain C.H.J. Keppler, USN, has had to review the unit on the drill field...
...review will be of the formal Navy variety with the newly reorganized V-12 band supplying the marches. Plans for the review were arranged by Lt. Donald Fraser, USNR, Drill Officer...
...WAVE regimen is similar to that of the Supply School, across the river. They have a set schedule of classes, specified study periods, and drill periods. Rising at 0630 they sally forth to greet the dawn with calisthenics on the Radcliffe Quad, traditional sunbathing area for the Cliffettes...