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Little Angeline Luceil Crowell reinvented herself as Ann Eden and snagged a millionaire, a good-looking twit in a naval ensign's uniform named William Woodward Jr. Ann worked hard at domestic life. She mastered French, hunted down pricey antiques at auctions and gamely entertained people with hyphenated names who clearly despised her. Above all, she yearned for Billy's virago mother Elsie to accept her. Billy, for his part, spent his time in bed with other women or at Belair, his beloved racing stable. Finally, on a chilly October night in 1955, after years of not-so-private misery...
...bother other women. Now she thinks maybe she should have made a little noise. An Air Force staff sergeant recalls a military doctor who used to pat the buttocks and breasts of many female patients, regardless of their ailment. As for the men, they stand divided. One Navy ensign has little sympathy. "A lot of women," he says, "bring it on themselves." Air Force Sergeant Bradley Ahrensfield, on the other hand, says there is "no excuse" for such behavior. Officially at least, every man in the Navy better adopt that attitude if he wants to keep...
Leary, the current holder of the Ensign C. Marklin Kelly award as the top female college lacrosse goalie, actually began her career as a soccer goalie...
...U.S.S. Nevada kept on playing The Star- Spangled Banner for the 8 a.m. flag raising even after a Japanese bomber roared overhead and fired a torpedo at the nearby Arizona. The torpedo missed, but the bomber sprayed machine-gun fire at the Nevada's band and tore up its ensign...
...well. After Bennion died, an officer told Miller to feed ammunition into a nearby machine gun. Like other blacks in the Navy of 1941, Miller had not been trained for anything but domestic chores, but he soon took charge of the machine gun and started firing away. A young ensign recalled later that it was the first time he had seen Miller smile since he last fought in the ring...