Word: pointers
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...read the saga of Ted; most campus COs apparently were convinced that Ted's primer-simple story was just what their freshmen would go for.* Without consulting with each other, Colonels Summerall and Stancisko had come to a contrary conclusion, left their stocks of Ted undistributed. Explained West Pointer Summerall last week: "You've got to consider the type of institution...
Bubbles & Cheers. What sort of teacher do students remember? "They always recall the ill-tempered and eccentric [ones]-Miss Crab, who hit them with the pointer, and Mr. Fizz, who blew bubbles." The'y also remember such teachers as Harvard's George Lyman Kittredge, who lectured w'ith such ferocity that he. once tumbled-off his platform, or such men as History Professor Woodrow Wilson of Princeton who spoke with such clarity and conviction that his students would burst into cheers. "But next to those," says Gilbert Highet, "they remember the teachers who made them remember...
...York's legislature created its Civilian Defense Commission in May. It was supposed to operate on an appropriation of $100,000. To run the show, Governor Dewey had picked Lucius De Bignon Clay, the wiry, sharp-nosed, imperious West Pointer who accepted the chairmanship of the commission as a sideline to his new null job as chairman of Continental...
Bearded, intrepid West Pointer Hood led his troops in the grand manner-and suffered the consequences. At Gettysburg he was wounded in the arm; at Chickamauga he lost his right leg. In the heat of battle, "he was transformed from a shy, awkward young general perplexed by the minutiae of paper work, tactical details and camp routine into a fearless and almost terrible leader who inspired his men, to heroic feats." Unfortunately for the Southern cause, Confederate President Jefferson Davis mistook bravery for generalship, put the crippled Hood in command of the Army of Tennessee in the midst...
...25th Infantry Division had never retreated unless it was ordered by higher command, and most of the professionals on the Korean front thought they knew the reason why: the 2yth Regiment had something no other outfit had. That something was its commander, a lean, pleasantly hard-bitten West Pointer named John Hersey Michaelis, 38. Last week, the men of Colonel Michaelis' 27th combat team tangled with a capable and battle-tested foe, a 45-year-old North Korean lieutenant general named Kim Mu Chong, onetime commanding general of the Chinese Communists' famed Eighth Route Army...