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Married. Navy Lieut. Joseph Knefler Taussig Jr., 23, Annapolis '41, holder of the Navy Cross (for Pearl Harbor valor), only son of outspoken Vice Admiral Taussig; and Betty Bostwick Carney, 23, daughter of Rear Admiral Robert Bostwick Carney; in Washington.
In the Navy, an officer fit for top command must be 1) well weathered, 2) a graduate of Annapolis. A composite picture of the flag officers who run the Navy -from statistics on officer personnel released this week-would be a man who was graduated from the Naval Academy around...
Annapolis Trained. All of the flag officers who rule the waves-with one thin exception-are Annapolis trained, † That exception is Rear Admiral Albert B. Ran dall, ex-skipper of the Leviathan. No com bat commander, he is a member of the Merchant Marine Reserve and comman dant of...
Only among the 36 rear admirals in the staff corps are there other non-Annapolis men. Outstanding among these is Ben Moreell, Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, who came to the Navy from a municipal job during the last war and jumped the grade of captain when...
Tackles: White (Notre Dame, Navy); Whitmire (Annapolis).