Word: annapolises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The new job for Annapolis-educated Lewis Brereton: to umbrella the invasion. Made Companion of the Order of the Bath last November, the General still wears baggy pants and an old sweater under his flying suit. His old habit of turning up unexpectedly at his medium-bomber and fighter stations...
Died. Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell, 81, fabulous utilitycoon; in Manhattan. In 1929 he was one of many men called "richest in the world." The tall, broad-shouldered Annapolis-man ('83) grubbed an Alabama cotton patch as an orphan of twelve, at 24 built the first hydroelectric plant west of the...
During his training at the Annapolis "Schools of Application" (where civilians were turned into officers), Marine Smith met Ada Wilkinson of Phoenixville, Pa. at a dance. In 1909, when he returned from the Philippines, he married her, despite the anti-Yankee doubts of the Alabama Smiths.
He was a fat boy, shy, bookwormish, overfond of baker's buns. His father, a St. Louis lawyer, christened him Edward H. O'Hare. But the neighborhood dubbed him "Butch." Hard-muscled, no longer fat, he was still "Butch" when he took his diploma at Annapolis, then went...
The high, delicate, exacting art of chamber music has no finer practitioners today than the Budapest String Quartet. Last week, deep in one of their busiest seasons, the Quartet was in Manhattan, giving the kind of performances that excite the perfectionist audience of the New Friends of Music. Within a...