Word: ensigns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...polish his magic act and work on ventriloquism. He recalls that he devoted a long night to decoding a Navy message, and delivered it to the admiral's quarters at 7 a.m. Visiting with the admiral was Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, who asked the young ensign what he was going to do after the war. "I hadn't really given it much thought," says Carson today, "but I had to say something." So for the next few hours, he entertained the SECNAV with card tricks...
...least six of the 16 U.S. pilots who lost their planes were rescued, a few of them - Navy Ensign James Laing for one - after having ejected from their aircraft in midair...
...Right now, though, Navy's 1963 All-America Quarterback Roger Staubach, 24, pretty much has to throw to his old teammate, former Navy Guard Fred Marlin, 26. There aren't too many other decent receivers at the U.S. naval base at Danang in South Viet Nam, where Ensign Staubach is stationed as a supply officer. Jolly Roger keeps his passing arm limbered up by working out with Fred in the loading areas-and there's still talk that he'll give the pros a try when his tour of duty is ended...
...Born. To Ensign Roger Staubach, 24, Navy's All-America quarterback of the early 1960s and 1963 Heisman trophy winner (TIME cover, Oct. 18, 1963), and Marianne Staubach, 24: their first child, a girl; in Athens, Ga., where Rog just finished naval-supply school prior to being shipped to Viet...
Another p.r. man on Guam, William Brinkley, wrote a book about it. The book was called "Don't Go Near the Water," and Dietz, in case you're wondering, was Ensign Max Siegel...