Word: ensigns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Make It Tough. Such was the case last week when Moderator Bud Collyer introduced each of three men as "Thomas Carpenter, West Point cadet." One imposter was actually a Coast Guard ensign, the other a truck driver who had learned to brace his back in the Marine Corps. Both had spent the previous day at West Point, boning up on campus customs, getting regulation haircuts and uniforms fitted. Three of the panelists guessed the truck driver, an act he greeted with one of the most triumphant smiles ever flashed on the TV screen. Another time the panel had to pick...
...Seamen who sail under the "Red Duster" of the British merchant marine have borne that ensign proudly over all the world's oceans. But last week some swabbies from the Cunard liner Queen Mary drifted onto a lee shore and scuttled their pride in one of the dockside saloons of Manhattan's Twelfth Avenue. A boatload of deck apes from the S.S. United States, led by deadeye "Tex" Rozelle, challenged the visitors to a round of darts, and whipped the limeys at their own sport, five games to four. Britannia's seapower had not known such disgrace...
...White Ensign of Britain's Royal Navy, which had flown for 162 triumphant years over the vast Trincomalee naval station on Ceylon's east coast, came fluttering down its flagstaff for the last time. In its place, proud Ceylonese raised the Golden Lion of Ceylon's own navy. In the harbor, Her Majesty's cruiser Ceylon, the 8,781-ton flagship of Britain's once-mighty East Indies squadron, paused momentarily to exchange naval courtesies with the inward-bound Vijaya, a hastily reconditioned 13-year-old British minesweeper, which is the only "capital" ship...
Watson has occupied the Associate Dean's office since he returned to the University in 1946. Before World War II, he was associated with J.P. Morgan, Inc. He entered the Navy as an Ensign in 1940 and left the service as a Commander...
...Othello is, perhaps, the greatest work in the world," wrote that famous man of letters Thomas Macaulay. And nothing, I think, has happened in the century since to alter his verdict. Giraldo Cinthio's story of the Moor of Venice, his ensign Iago and his wife Desdemona has, in fact, been the source of several superlatives: it gave us Rossini's Otello, his finest serious opera; it gave us the best of all Italian opera libretti (by Arrigo Boito), which, when set to music by Verdi, became the supreme Italian tragic opera of the Romantic century; and it gave...