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...never intended to be a dean; he wanted to be a poet. As a student at the University of Michigan, Christian Gauss (rhymes with mouse) was a prominent athlete and Phi Beta Kappa scholar, dressed in velveteen jacket and flowing tie á la Gilbert's Bunthorne. He worked his way through college in three years, could recite the Inferno from start to finish in Italian by the time he graduated. He sailed off to Paris, to the Latin Quarter and versifying. Michigan lured him back with the offer of a teaching job, made more attractive by the fact that...
...unbearably long days & nights, when the mental strait jacket of Army discipline and regimentation seemed strangling, I had dreamed of "the moment." Now, at 4:22, I was a free man. But it didn't turn out like the dream...
...major collared me and yowled: "Button your jacket, soldier! Don't you know enough to salute?" Here was what I had been waiting for. What did I do? I buttoned my jacket. I saluted. I said "yessir," and told him I was a civilian. He said, "Humph...
...intriguing. As a Senator, Lew Schwellenbach had been among the most violent of the New Deal's "young Turks," but his personal life has been in every instance conservatively planned. A mild man who chews his cigars, wears horn-rimmed spectacles and sports a zippered sport jacket on the job. Schwellenbach is studious by temperament but short of temper; judicial-minded but a bear at partisan politics; labor-minded but with a sense of fairness to industry. He is also a man who did not want the job of Labor Secretary: he took it on the urging...
Only a few returned. Before sundown, the men fought over life jackets, as their own lost buoyancy from long immersion. No one dared to sleep, for fear his jacket would be ripped from him. A Catholic chaplain tried to stop the fighting, swimming from one group of men to another. He died of exhaustion; 25 others died from the fighting...