Word: annapolises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the men, there is no outstanding newcomer this year. Hence, the men's singles should go to one of the four top-rankers who have found time to compete this year: 26-year-old Frankie Parker (on vacation from his job as assistant to the head of Metro...
To get in the army, candidates have worked out a rogue's repertory for concealing disabilities. Concealment becomes especially ingenious, says Dr. Hulett, among candidates for West Point, Annapolis, the Air Force and Submarine Service, where physical standards are unusually high. "Even if the examiner discovers a defect, despite...
At Annapolis he had been fullback on the football team, and the midshipmen had given him the nickname he still carries: "Old Hookem." (On the gridiron, where he was cool and harddriving, the midshipmen used to shout: "Hook 'em, Ghormley! Hook 'em!") In the classroom he had an...
He saw enough Washington duty, as Secretary of the General Board and in the Bureau of Naval Operations, to decide to settle there with his wife and three children (a daughter and two sons, the youngest now prepping for Annapolis). When his time came for flag rank he was made...
Daniel Armstrong grew up around the Hampton campus, graduated from Annapolis, spent most of World War I on a destroyer, was acting commander of a pitching four-stacker when he left the Navy in 1919 to enter business. He was a petroleum company executive when the Navy recalled him two...