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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...give Man's utmost for the best man knows...
Britain's immaculate Tailor and Cutter Magazine surveyed the international scene, issued a list of the world's best-dressed males. Among them: Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito ("the ritziest looking dictator in the world"), Richard Nixon ("a neat line between the wigwag shapes of U.S. drape and the ludicrously tight togs of U.S. Ivy Leaguers"), durable Hoofer Fred Astaire ("one of the few Americans who can wear a suit of tails"), Cinemactor Rex Harrison ("the best British answer to the Italian look"), Douglas Fairbanks Jr. ("British taste and American imagination"), Plutocrat Nubar Gulbenkian...
...missed targets that were there. The best Navy brains were baffled. So an offi cer was dispatched to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on the shoul der of Cape...
Curiosity & Avocation. The man who best exemplifies the growth of U.S. oceanography into a major science is Columbus O'Donnell Iselin II himself. Since the prewar days when he solved the Navy's temperature problems off Guantanamo, he has been longtime director of Woods Hole, seen its fulltime staff grow from a prewar 24 to the present 300, its fleet from one ship to five, is now its senior oceanographer...
...clock, snatching bits of food and sleep during quiet intervals in their experiments. Dress is informal. In the Tropics, oceanographers favor ragged shorts or underdrawers; on North Atlantic cruises the men are generally cold and wet, and during the first week at sea most of them get seasick. "The best seagoing oceanographers," says Iselin, "are the result of picking over a lot of stomachs...