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...current Annapolis anecdote concerns an unreconstructed first-classman (senior) who hazed an ex-paratrooper plebe, told him: "Mr. So-&-So, this Academy will make a man of you yet." Replied the plebe evenly: "Mac, I've killed better men than...
Harvard Spares: Abbott, Moseley, Huntington, Minot, Allen, Ward, A. Key, Coulter, Fletcher. Goals, First Period: Delorey (Kelley) 4:45; Fitzgerald (Mac-Intire) 9:45. Second Period: McIntire (Fitzgerald) 3:51; Songin (McIntire, Gallagher) 10:52; McKean (unassisted) 18:22. Third Period: Kelley (Talbot) 6:29; Songin (unassisted...
Gypsy Rose Lee came in blue jeans, to paint Benjy's fourth-floor rooms. Author Christopher Isherwood, Poet Louis Mac-Neice, Composers Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson drifted in & out. At meals, Auden presided at one end of the table. He also did the bookkeeping, and was irritated if any of the tenants questioned their bills. Benjy always paid up (about $25 a week) without a murmur...
...never been an editor. Last week he got his chance. Hungarian-born Alexander Ince, onetime publisher of Stage magazine, bought Theatre Arts (circ. 30,000), a Variety for highbrows. He invited MacArthur to run it. O.K., wired Mac, on 20 conditions (samples: get me twelve geniuses, move the office to Palm Springs, get Lana Turner as my secretary). He settled for a block of stock...
...Douglas Mac Arthur's supporters received a cable from him in Japan which they interpreted as meaning that the General was willing to be drafted. They announced that his name would be entered in both the Wisconsin primary on April 6 and the Illinois primary on April...