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...excitement of the week was the receipt of orders by the first of our number to be detached. Ensign, Celia Adams is moving on to the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts in Washington. We have it straight from the radio shack that she'll be a good person to know once the ball starts rolling for the rest...

Author: By Ensign ETHEL Greenfield, | Title: Creating a Ripple | 3/5/1943 | See Source »

Married. Ann Louise Wickard, 20, daughter of Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard; and Naval Ensign Jean Vincent Pickart, 23, of Gary, Ind.; in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 1, 1943 | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

...each have our own job to do," is the attitude of Navy Communications officers stationed in the Yard toward widespread accusations of snobbishness displayed between the Navy men and Harvard undergraduates, according to Ensign LeRoy S. Merrifield of the College-barracked group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD MEN DOING THEIR JOB SAYS NAVY GLEE CLUB LEADER | 2/25/1943 | See Source »

...former graduate student at Littauer, explained that his colleagues considered the Harvard men "a good bunch of guys" and thought they should stay in college as long as they possibly could. "The idea that the civilian students are considered slackers by the men in uniform is absurd," the ensign stated. "Most of us had completed our college training, so we had loss to give up," he commented...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD MEN DOING THEIR JOB SAYS NAVY GLEE CLUB LEADER | 2/25/1943 | See Source »

Simply stated, the normal military procedure for a WAVE ensign is to stand aside for a male lieutenant, and the senior male officer is acting in a perfectly proper manner if he assumes the privileges of his rank. But if the lieutenant indicates he wishes the ensign to go ahead first, the she is supposed to go without any fuss or feathers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAVES RANK SALUTE FOR THEIR BRAID | 2/19/1943 | See Source »

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