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...Meanwhile four Navy destroyer schools were teaching four different methods of coping with U-boats and "the Navy Department laid such stress on the security of communications that they sometimes failed of their essential purpose to communicate." The Navy's historian can't be accused of burnishing braid...
...John W. Thomason Jr., U.S.M.C., as "a haven for the ignorant and well-connected")-If at times brash, energetic Author Zacharias seems on the verge of confessing that he is the only U.S. Navy officer who knew what World War II was about, his general complaints about barnacled gold-braid thinking are all too probably justified. Whatever naval pundits may make of his claims and conclusions, lay readers should be interested in his story, much of it well told and all of it as shy as a is-gun salute...
...rich cloth and go out on the town festooned with about every feminine furbelow short of a bone in the nose. The fabric restrictions, the drab colors and tailored lines of wartime were out. An opulent era of furs, jewels, lame, rustling silk and bouncing bustles, of feathers, tassels, braid and decontrolled nudity was here...
...same time, Adams fought Hoover's reductions of naval appropriations vehemently. Neither the marvels of politics, nor four years of proximity to naval pomp and naval braid caused any alteration of his habits. He ate lunch daily in the Navy Building cafeteria, after standing in a line of clerks and stenographers and carrying his own tray to a table. Once, when motion picture cameramen asked him to sit down and write something while they photographed him, he pulled out a pen, thoughtfully scribbled "This is hell. . . this is hell. . . this is hell...
...deeper furrows of cynicism. Even in his guerrilla days, Tito insisted on daily shaves and neat dress. Now, as Yugoslavia's first marshal, he gleefully indulges his fancy for uniforms (his latest number: dress blues with four-inch red trouser stripes, gleaming ebony boots, visored cap with gold braid and a red star, immaculate white doeskin gloves). But sometimes his public relations men ask him to pose in civilian clothes to seem closer to the masses. After long indecision, Tito finally chose his marshal's insignia (made of felt): a star wreathed in gold laurel. It was designed...