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SINK 'EM ALL (416 pp.)-Vice'Admiral Charles A. Lockwood-Dutton...
...good grandfather went down south in 1917 and brought 'em up by the trainload," he bawled. "They wooed, and they cooed, and they multiplied." He took cracks at the "Abie's Irish Rose boys." He charged that Recall Leader Charles A. Wagner had walked out on his first wife, "taking all the wedding presents with him." For good measure, Little Orvie also belabored the Dearborn police ("one drives while the other sleeps") and firemen ("one day on, two days...
...days a week. At night, when she wasn't appearing on her thrice-weekly television show (in which she and Tommy Harmon, onetime Michigan football star, interview sport celebrities), Nancy pored over strategy diagrams with her father, a tennis pro. Says Nancy: "I used to overpower 'em. Now I find that tennis takes brains...
...feats of the submariners are recounted in Battle Submerged, by Rear Admiral Harley Cope and Captain Walter Karig, and Sink 'Em All, by Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood. Unfortunately, each book spills some of the drama in the detail, but they make clear that the undersea arm now has handsome traditions of its own. Examples: the stories of the Barb, the Tang and the Growler...
...Captain and had spent the day before passing out two-dollar bills to people on the street and offering them "The Chance of a Lifetime." "Not many people took the money but the Captain goes over fine with women," he said. "He'll get a good review out of 'em." There was another rush of laughter from the end of the table and one of the women blushed and said "oh, Captain...