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...Soles. For Shepard, the challenging curriculum seemed a natural outgrowth of the life that he likes to lead. Born in East Derry, N.H. (pop. 200), in 1923, he is the son of a retired Army colonel, but he chose the Naval Academy instead of West Point, was commissioned an ensign in 1944, and served on a destroyer in the Atlantic until the end of World War II. Everything he did, he did with a personal flair. When he wangled orders to flight school, he became so impatient with the pace of service routine that he got himself a private pilot...
Married. Mary Clark Rockefeller, 22, daughter of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, great-granddaughter of the original John D.; and William Justice Strawbridge Jr.. 24, descendant of one of Philadelphia's first families (Strawbridge & Clothier department store), now on active duty as an ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve; in New York City...
...born in Geneva while his parents were on a Grand Tour, went to Groton and Harvard (magna cum laude, '31). After graduation he bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange for $185,000 and joined the family firm. He went into the Navy as an ensign in 1942, served with the Seventh Fleet, was discharged as a lieutenant commander. Married in 1931, he has two daughters, maintains homes in Washington, New York, New Jersey, Maine and France...
...time he wrote his next naval comedy, called Ensign O'Toole and Me, Lederer had chopped the humorous element to half its previous importance. In its place arose the concern for American relationships overseas that was to form the entire basis for the book following Ensign O'Toole--The Ugly American, written in cooperation with Eugene Burdick...
Swimming Spy. The vice consul was not a diplomat, and his name was not really Morimura. He was Takeo Yoshikawa, former ensign in the Japanese Imperial Navy, who had been sent to Honolulu in April 1941 on espionage duty. Now, 19 years after Pearl Harbor, writing in the authoritative United States Naval Institute Proceedings, Yoshikawa details his role as Japan's eyes and ears in the days before Pearl Harbor...