Word: underclassman
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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Picked up for $50 by a suburban Chicago manuscript collector last week: a November 1942 letter from General Dwight D. Eisenhower to his son John, then a West Point underclassman. "This is a fine command," wrote Ike of the Allied troops he was about to lead into North Africa. ''And, of course, it is every soldier's ambition to get command of something, even if it is only a platoon. I never once dreamed that my first command would be an 'Allied' one and that I would have soldiers, sailors and airmen of two great...