Word: annapolises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In the Aug. 11 edition of TIME, you have an article entitled "The Duke's Heaven," in which I figure quite prominently. ... I would like to correct one great error. . . . The idea of turning Del Monte into a postgraduate school for naval officers originated entirely with the naval authorities...
¶To Annapolis' blue-jawed, balding, postwar midshipmen, TIME'S ensign is dipped in apology.-ED.
Last week, President Truman signed a bill authorizing the Navy to buy (for $2,149,000) Duke Sam's Del Monte Hotel as a postgraduate "Little Annapolis" for naval officers. By then, Duke Sam was already busy planning a model village, including a $320,000 shopping center, to house...
For his stroke in the number one shell, Bolles had Frank Cunningham, a 1942 150-pounder with a barrel chest and slim hips, who yesterday was chosen, along with number five, Jud Gale, for a Seattle sportswriter's all-star crew. Cunningham led the Crimson to victories at Annapolis, Princeton...
Since February the Navy's eight-oar crew had practiced in a bathtub-sized inlet at Annapolis called College Creek. The creek, only 400 yards long, wandered around four bends and under three bridges. Navy's crew banked around the turns, used more rudder than oars, cussed the...