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Married. Mildred ("Mimi") Clark, 20, Wellesley-educated daughter of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Tom Clark; and Ensign Thomas Richard Gronlund, 23, Navy air cadet; in a formal wedding attended by 565 guests, including Chief Justice Fred Vinson, Associate Justice Hugo Black. General of the Army Omar Bradley; in Washington...
...Navy wings and commission in October 1941, and was shipped to Pearl Harbor. His skipper made him officer of the day for Sunday, Dec. 7, with the remark that "nothing happens here on Sunday." The something that happened that Sunday-the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor-allowed Ensign Bridgeman to distinguish himself in the only possible way that day by not getting wounded...
...Dear Franklin . . ." After three months of brooding and flying a hospital bed, Ensign Bridgeman wrote a letter to President Roosevelt, beginning "Dear Franklin . . ." and demanded transfer to an active job. He told his secret to an admiral's wife who did welfare work in the hospital. She turned white and ran to the commanding admiral of the San Francisco Naval District. In old-line Navy custom, such conduct by an ensign was almost as shocking as mutiny...
After singing for her lunch at a meeting of the Women's National Press Club in Washington, Mary Martin learned that Governor Allan Shivers had promoted her from her South Pacific rank of Ensign Nellie Forbush to Admiral in the Texas Navy, thereby giving her equal Lone Star flag rank with Admirals Dwight Eisenhower (who recently also accepted the title of honorary president of the Camp Fire Girls) and onetime Chief of Naval Operations Chester Nimitz...
Justice of the Peace Crowley laid the letter beside the notice to appear in court, which had just been returned to her in the mail from the ensign's home address. Onlit was written a note: "Ensign Marvin Stuart Cohn was killed in his jet plane when it crashed aboard the carrier U.S.S. Philippine Sea . . . while serving his country." The date on Ensign Cohn's letter: Nov. 17. Date of his death...