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Nile Kinnick correspondence, January-December 1941

1941-12-06: Page 03

2 that the rumor of our similarity in looks leaves me quite unflattered.  In fact, it deflates my ego a bit further - and it never was too strong in this respect.  After supper Thurs. night Ken & I drove over to K.C. & saw "Sundown", a just - fair movie.
Friday morning we took a bunch of written exams among which were intellectual aptitude tests, mechanical aptitude tests (which, of course was right down my alley?), & a biographical inventory sheet.  In the afternoon we listened to a lecture in the south hangar on the danger of carelessness around plane propellers.  The guy who presented it, had the bushiest eyebrows of anyone I have ever seen.  I bet he has to brush them out of his eyes every morning before he can see.  He made a very forceful, but humorous, presentation of his point

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2 that the rumor of our similarity in looks leaves me quite unflattered. In fact, it deflates my ego a bit further - and it never was too strong in this respect. After supper Thurs. night Ken & I drove over to K.C. & saw "Sundown", a just - fair movie. Friday morning we took a bunch of written exams among which were intellectual aptitude tests, mechanical aptitude tests (which, of course was right down my alley?), & a biographical inventory sheet. In the afternoon we listened to a lecture in the south hangar on the danger of carelessness around plane propellers. The guy who presented it, had the bushiest eyebrows of anyone I have ever seen. I bet he has to brush them out of his eyes every morning before he can see. He made a very forceful, but humorous, presentation of his point