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Remember Me, Cpl., I Mean Dr. Schlesinger?, Your C.O.?

More than one returning serviceman has come back to find himself his brother's keeper or vice versa. CRIMSON presidents have barked at candidates who used to be their topkicks, proctors and even deans have cautioned former class-mates, but not many of these relationships are likely to cause as much stir as the one involving Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'38, recently appointed associate professor of History, and recipient of several noteworthy kudos, including a Pulitzor Prize and Guggenheim Fellowship.

Home from the war's last week came Wilbur A. Cowett '45, now a first leeey and ex-unit commander, who reminisced: "Schlesinger was making $10,000 a year as a civilian with OSS in London. Then they drafted him as a private, and he was assigned to my unit. I made him a corporal just before we parted." Cowett's future college record was a subject of much speculation last night.

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