Word: clinton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outfit itself was the hero, and one of the greatest turned out yet by the Navy. Its skipper, Commander Joseph Clinton Clifton, a 36-year-old precision product of Annapolis and Pensacola, had seen to that. Sinewy "Jumping Joe," who was never known to sit in a chair more than 30 seconds at a time, had put the group straight on his views right from the start. They were a team; there was no room for hot-shots or prima donnas no time for the slightest bit of sloppy flying, bad shooting, lazy tactics...
...Chaplain Clinton A. Neyman, reported Chaplain Gatlin, "reprimanded me for my zeal in winning men to Christ, saying that there were other duties more important . . . told me ... that I did not have the Navy picture." Chaplain Gatlin added 'but I knew how to show a man who was dying how to go to Heaven." The Beacon termed the Navy chaplaincy situation "most deplorable," said "it concerns definitely every true Christian in the United States of America." The case of Chaplain Gatlin might be extreme. It was not new. Last year the Navy forced Chaplain Norbett G. Talbott to resign...
General Vincent. Almost but not quite so big (6 ft., 175 lb.), Clinton Dermott ("Casey") Vincent, the Air Forces' second boy general, is a fighter pilot and the prototype of "Vince Casey" in Milton Caniff's famed action comic, Terry and the Pirates, but has not appeared in the strip since its scene shifted to Burma. Caniff got acquainted with Vincent through a fan letter written by Vincent's wife to the cartoonist. "I picked his brains," says Caniff...
Manuscripts that are on display include an original letter of Thaddeus Kosciuszko, Polish hero of the American Revolution, to Governor Clinton concerning construction work at West Point...
...Church of the Good Thief (M.G.M.) will be a biography of Father Ambrose Hyland of the Clinton Prison at Dannemora, N.Y., whose inmates built a church for themselves within the jail walls (TIME, Sept...