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...Wally's favorite models was Sergeant Alexander Woollcott, star reporter for The Stars and Stripes. Woollcott, elegant of uniform and gait, swooning at the sound of a tire blowout, was pictured with Reporter Hudson Hawley, whom Wally made famous as the "Salut-ing Demon." In the hectic offices of The Stars and Stripes, Wally found other models: Editor Harold Ross, now editor of The New Yorker; Poet Tip Bliss, whose dog tried to bite General Pershing on his only visit to the office; Colyumnist Franklin Pierce Adams (F. P. A.); Mark Watson, now Sunday editor of the Baltimore...
This statement from the Eli Sophomore, made in Commons after dinner recently, provoked several friends to make good his boast. Sergeant Frank M. Newman's best device was a heavy brown belt with handcuffs attached. He strapped Radner in the belt, one used for violent mental cases, and bound his hands in the steel bracelets. The doubting Elis were satisfied that he was securely fastened...
Asked what kind of person Adolf Hitler was in the War, Albert Patrich, a Little Falls, Minn, farmer who was his Wartime sergeant, replied: "He was just a corporal, what could he say or do? Eight men were under him, that's all. ... I had 40 men under me. I had to give orders to him but he never talked much...
Boston did not know, possibly, that their reporters' only source of news was the Central Square desk sergeant; that a Cambridge policeman had made the four arrests (and had arrested, inevitably, the wrong men); that a Cambridge policeman was asking the pound of flesh; that the Post Commander was another Cambridge policeman...
...Sergeant Charles E. Donelon, who is credited with personally knocking down eight students, took the Bursar's cards of four in the course of the fracas. Donelon later announced that he would demand the surrender of the men from Dean Hanford this morning...