Word: calhoun
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Japs were just bombing Billy Calhoun into his biggest job. That job is one of the most manifold, complicated and far-extended jobs in the Navy. For Calhoun, as Commander of the Pacific Fleet Service Force, provides everything needed to keep the Navy running everywhere in the Pacific. As he puts it: "We handle everything under the shining sun for the Navy and Marines which is not actually connected with fighting the ships...
...Honolulu last Dec. 7 Vice Admiral William Lowndes Calhoun broke a standing routine. For once he missed Sunday morning church services. Instead he found himself among officers who were directing streams of yellow obscenities at the raiders overhead. "Gentlemen," he said, "you mustn't address those fellows that way. After all, they are just fighting for their country the way we must for ours." All jaws dropped. Turning his face upward, Calhoun added meditatively, "Yes, the dirty, yellow-bellied sons of bitches...
...when he visited his home town, Palatka, as Florida's only admiral son, they gave him a big picnic. The Mayor spoke, praising Calhoun as Palatka's first citizen, greatest man. (Lieut. General Joseph Stilwell. U.S. Commander in China, also a Palatka son, had not yet gained fame.) Bill Calhoun, listening to the Mayor, began rocking with laughter. "Why are you laughing. Willie?" the Mayor asked. "When I was last here," Calhoun chortled, "your old lady was my schoolteacher.' When I went away she said, 'Willie Calhoun, you'll never amount to anything...
...Willie Calhoun soon amounted to a midshipman at Annapolis. In World War I, he amounted to sub base commander at Coco Solo, Canal Zone. Despite the fact that the destroyer Young under his command followed six others on to the rocks of Point Honda in 1923, a court-martial commended Calhoun for his "coolness, intelligence and seamanlike ability after the vessel stranded, which . . . was responsible for the greatly reduced loss of life." Calhoun's career moved upward through battleship and base force cofnmands...
...wealthy Tenor Hayes's proudest possession. He calls it Angelmo (a word he coined from angel and mother), parcels it out among other Negro families to teach them the joys of independence. Among the neighborhood whites he is respected; he gives one charity concert a year in nearby Calhoun...