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Eric Larrabee '43 said of Professor Cons: "I thin everyone who has taken his courses will realize how hells, in a very literal sense, irreplaceable. They were completely his courses because everything in them meant a definite something...
This letter was circulated in Britain last week. Reginald Pinkerton, its author, is a thin-lipped, jug-eared bachelor of 49 who grasps his rolled umbrella with wary grip, never knowing when he may be attacked by a predatory female. In his young days, as a clerk in a grocery store, Reginald Pinkerton learned to fear housewives. He willingly fought through all of World War I, a man's affair. Then he took a job as a bank clerk in Argentina, where woman's place is in the home. Returning to England in 1926, he "observed the havoc...
...smelters who hold no priorities, almost any kind of steel scrap is worth almost any price. No. 1 bootleg method is to "upgrade" a load of low-grade scrap with a thin top layer of good scrap, sell the whole thing at the top limit for good stuff, exchange winks with the buyer...
With his air strength spread thin (see p. 19) and his ground soldiers scattered from hell to breakfast over the southwest Pacific, the Jap's job was a big one-and Filipino troops were making it bigger every day by raiding him from Davao to the beachheads of Panay. If they had air-force help from Australia, they might make the job too big for the Jap to handle...
...Young men who leave college in almost every case do not come back after the war. You can imagine how it would look to them after the reality they have been through. I should not want any soldier for a pupil. We might not agree," Copey commented with a thin smile...