Word: ensigns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think Eugene Landy will get his Navy ensign's commission. I know that he has been admitted to Yale Law School and doubtless has a bright future before him. I also know of one man who since his discharge from the Army has worked through nine jobs. From each he was discharged with regret by employers when they discovered that he had less than an honorable discharge from the Army. This is the kind of penalty for which there is no parallel . . The President's security and loyalty procedures require drastic revision in the civil service. They...
...naval architecture, received a $50 prize awarded by the Daughters of the American Revolution for being the best student in naval science. His graduation should have been triumphant. But last week came a blow. The Navy Department advised the Academy that it would not give Eugene Landy the ensign's reserve commission that usually goes with an Academy degree...
Best of Ten. Off Plum Island, Skipper Du Mont got the kind of break no sailor can guess in advance: he came upon a boat in distress. The ketch Rolling Stone, out of Red Bank, N.J., was rolling in the easy swell, her ensign flying upside down from the mizzenmast. She had lost her rudder shaft. Under the rules, no matter how much time Dr. Du Mont lost going to her aid, he would get a perfect score for leg 6. Within minutes, the Coast Guard had been called by radio, and Hurricane III was back on course...
...machinist's mate second class, with the specific intention of becoming an aviator. After ground training at M.I.T. he went to Pensacola and learned to fly the Navy's N-9-an old Jenny dressed up with a pontoon and wing floats. Commissioned a Reserve ensign, Pride was designated Naval Aviator No. 1119. At the end of the war he was in Europe...
Married. Evelyn Ay, 21, Miss America of 1954 (who expressed surprise at winning the title because she felt she was too fat "here and there"); and Carl G. Sempier Jr., 23, U.S. Navy ensign and former University of Pennsylvania varsity footballer; in Ephrata...