Word: annapolisman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, commuted to his Navy-owned mansion in Surrey in a black Imperial. His clipped accent, his malacca stick with mufti, and his penchant for quoting Dickens and Thackeray delighted Londoners. But in 40-odd years of Navy life, Annapolisman Holloway ('19) has carved a commendable seadog career. During World War II he steamed in with the first African invasion as a destroyer squadron commander, later commanded the battleship Iowa in strikes against the Japanese home islands. To send Lord Jim to Lebanon, the U.S. dusted off a sub-command...
Pity for Weeding. Annapolisman Rickover had still more in his sea bag, and he unloaded it later in an address on getting an honorary degree of doctor of engineering at Brooklyn's Polytechnic Institute. The blast: "We waste the best years of our children in the name of democracy and of the sacred comprehensive school. The careful manner with which European authorities find the proper schooling for each child's gifts is criticized here as cruel and undemocratic. Weeding out by examinations arouses pity and horror...
...Annapolisman Rickover denounced progressive education, which "makes its pernicious influence felt in the steady deterioration of the secondary school curricula, and overlong elementary schooling." His remedy: "Turn back to the home what is properly the function of the home, and permit the public schools to concentrate on what is properly their function-the education of young minds...
Unable to fly, Annapolisman Wead supported himself by writing about flying, mostly for the movies. Dirigible, Hell Divers, Test Pilot, Ceiling Zero, Dive Bomber and a dozen other pictures made him a well-paid, well-known man, a sort of Secretary of Aviation in Hollywood's ruling circles. In World War II Wead wangled active duty, hobbled about the flight decks of the Pacific with his neck in a steel brace, and won the Legion of Merit for his theory of the supporting carrier, a major contribution to Pacific strategy...
Died. Rear Admiral Apollo Soucek, 58, onetime (1953-55) chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, crack Navy test pilot and onetime holder of altitude records for sea-(38,560 ft. in 1929) and landplanes (43,166 ft. in 1930); of a heart attack in his sleep. Annapolisman Soucek, member of a famed Navy flying team (brother Zeus is a retired lieutenant commander turned aircraft-industry executive), was air officer of the carrier Hornet when it launched the Doolittle B-25 raid on Tokyo. in 1942, later commanded Task Force 77 in Korean waters...