As Zeno ("Buddy") King marched across the stage for his diploma last week, a child's voice shrilled: "That's my daddy." The audience at Southern Methodist University's commencement exercises was crawling with children of the Senior Class. Even more would have been there, if measles had not recently struck "Trailerville," S.M.U.'s student trailer camp.
Buddy King was only one of thousands who were getting their diplomas while their children watched. For the Class of '47 was the first big batch of veteran graduates. These were the boys who had been jerked from college...
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