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...Squadron's job was the evacuation of MacArthur, his family and staff. As described by Bulkeley and Kelly it is a mixture of daring and humor, of the Navyman's good-natured contempt for the Army and respect for its leader. Aboard the PTs, gold braid and oak leaves, drenched with roaring spray, were not in their element. "I noticed a figure by the machine-gun turret," says Kelly. "His stomach was long ago empty, but he was leaning forward, retching between his knees." Kelly told a quartermaster to help him below, got the answer: "The general says...
...Airmen. President Roosevelt is aware of the supreme importance of air power. Last week he was about to promote Rear Admiral John Henry Towers, chief of the Navy's aeronautics bureau. Towers will become vice admiral, will be assistant chief of naval operations. The "scrambled eggs" (gold braid) on his cap will give him authority corresponding to that of Lieut. General Henry H. Arnold, Army Air Force Chief. Navy departmentation appears to be at an end. To Airman and Admiral Ernest J. King, both commander in chief and chief of naval operations, will come centralized authority. The plain fact...
...Hansa, Fürst Bismarck, Thüringer Hof, Europäischer Hof-its bungalows and cinema and charming baroque church. Its solid burghers who have been here over a generation are still wearing their blue German peaked caps, the schoolboys, their green or red caps with gold braid...
Masterminding W9XBK's school was one of the strangest geniuses ever to wear the Navy's gold braid: gaunt, towering, post-deaf Lieut, (j.g.) William Crawford Eddy, U.S.N. Retired, who went from NBC's Manhattan television studio to build and operate W9XBK for Balaban & Katz in the fall...
...quality of American newness" into his canvases. He thumbed over mail-order catalogues to get every detail of his farm machinery just right. He exchanged the blurred-landscape technique of the Impressionists for an almost photographic preoccupation with homely detail: the designs of wire fences, overall seams, the rickrack braid on Iowa farm dresses. Some of his pictures (Daughters of Revolution, Dinner for Threshers, Arbor Day) became almost as famous as his American Gothic...