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...Pointer. In Natick, Mass., Sumner D. Hersey's family ate no meat for three weeks, saved the points for a birthday roast-beef dinner. Just before the 7-lb. roast was carved, Sumner Hersey's setter...
...West Pointer...
Animal Kingdom. In Boise, Idaho, Mrs. Lee Berry took two dozen baby chicks into her house to keep them warm, thereby exhausted her pointer, Sandy, who stood with nose and tail extended and one forefoot raised for four hours. In Atlantic City, Clifford H. Lee got his German shepherd back from Dogs for Defense, which had given up trying to make Fritz bite the enemy. In Chicago, Joseph Bosnyak, whose wife liked cats, got a divorce after he had testified: "I ate with cats. I slept with cats. ... It was nothing for me to wake up ... and find...
...infantry tactics and training must be kept rigorously up to date. Prewar alumni and one time instructors include George Marshall, Omar Bradley, "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, many another silver-starred Army name. Commandant for the last 16 months has been Major General Leven C. Allen, a non-West Pointer who led a machine-gun company in the A.E.F., has a thumping reputation as a teaching soldier. Head of the academic department is Brigadier General George H. Weems, a hard-bitten Tennesseean, who got his nickname of "Daddy" as oldest man in West Point's 1917 class. Both know T.I.S. from...
...Pantelleria, the squadron had been the subject of many a row over its segregation from white outfits. Its officers, headed by the C.O., slim, tea-colored Lieut. Colonel Benjamin 0. Davis, Jr., joined in none of the debate, plugged hard and long at their training. By the time West Pointer Davis led his P-4OS into battle, white airmen were ready to admit that the outfit was good, that in aerial marksmanship (at which it had had an unusual amount of training) it was one of the best...