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...played Ensign O'Toole...
After graduation and admission to a state Bar, students receive appointments as Ensign in the Judge Advocate General's Corp of the Reserve. A six-year commitment is required, with four years of active duty...
...assume that TIME either knows something nobody else knows, or else has been given advance word on the imminent demotion of Pueblo Skipper Bucher back to ensign? Otherwise, how do you explain the conspicuous absence of "scrambled eggs" on Commander Bucher's hat on the cover...
...Regrets. Mosbacher graduated cum laude from Choate, went on to Dartmouth, where he majored in economics, settled for C's, became known as a deft hand with a bridge deck and dice, and led the varsity sailing club to two straight national intercollegiate championships. Commissioned an ensign in the Navy in 1943, he applied for the Small Craft Training Center in Miami. The Navy, in its infinite wisdom, sent him to radar school instead, but Bus finally wrangled a transfer to the carrier Liscome Bay-a transfer that fell through when doctors found he had a hernia...
...Holiday Ensign. Navy people had an unofficial explanation. The spotter planes in the morning correctly identified Liberty, they maintain, and Israeli intelligence in Tel Aviv even looked her up in Jane's Fighting Ships. But the word did not reach all patrolling jet pilots and PT commanders, who expected to find only Israeli or Egyptian ships in the area. Since Liberty bears a slight resemblance to the Egyptian supply ship El Quseir, the Israeli commanders attacked. Liberty's U.S. flag was shot away during the air attack and the "holiday ensign...