Word: annapolises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dick, who has frequently been opposed by some of the brilliant pupils that have given him his fame as mentor of coaches as well as of players, won't find Yale's Howie Odell on the opposite bench this fall, but he will wave a cigar to Earl Brown, the...
The Japs know Admiral William Frederick Halsey, to their sorrow. They know him as the Annapolis-trained Dead End Kid who calls the Japs monkeys, whose battle cry is "Kill Japs, kill Japs, and then kill more Japs." They also know him as the calculating, chance-taking seaman who coolly...
This is not so much a matter of training as of temperament. In his college days, which included a year at the University of Virginia before he went to Annapolis, by McKinley appointment, Halsey passed from "Pudge" or "Bill," as his family had called him, to "Bull."
The Warm-Up. Annapolis left less of its conservative impress on Halsey than on most of its graduates. He acquired less book learning than many, graduating two-thirds of the way down his class ('04), but he kept more of his individuality as a rough & tough scrapper, quick to...
The Commodore. The boss of this crack crew is a ruddy, restive 50-year-old with twinkling china-blue eyes and eloquent white brows, who is more at home in a diving suit or on a burning deck than behind his Washington desk. No Annapolis man, Commodore Sullivan studied architecture...