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Those who pass remain in college until graduation, then go to Ensign School for three months' training, and presumably succeed in being commissioned as the result of that training. Those who fail (and there seems slight chance to failure for a man who can do the Harvard preparatory work) are immediately sent on active duty, and after six months' sea duty may apply for Ensign training. Failures may avoid this sea duty, however, by enlisting in the Naval Air Force for active duty...
I.B.M. Machine Operation--Today there will be a lecture on I.B.M Machine Operation by Ensign Binninger in the Navy Auditorium. All hands will attend. Formation at 1945 will be the same as conducted on Saturday mornings...
...boyhood, Boston's snooty Noble and Greenough private day school, of Harvard (where Saltonstall starred as an athlete, Putnam as a magna cum laude) and of Harvard's best social clubs (Hasty Pudding and Fly for Putnam, Hasty Pudding and Porcellian for Saltonstall). Putnam served as ensign and lieutenant (j.g.) in the U.S. Navy during World War I, while fellow alumnus Saltonstall was busy as a lieutenant in the field artillery...
...Abandon Ship." "I can't bear to look at her," said a young ensign, 'watching from an escort. He turned his face and walked away. Slowly the York town turned on her side. Two planes clung like beetles to her slanting deck. "My God, she's going to capsize," an officer said, almost in a whisper. Then up went the blue & white flag: "Abandon ship...
Mustered out as an ensign in 1918, John Carroll painted pictures for a time of the inmates in a Macon, Ga. insane asylum, made picture frames for fellow artists in Woodstock, N.Y., designed stained-glass windows for Tiffany, made copies of old masters in the Metropolitan Museum. His first Manhattan show was put on by an ex-bartender named Daniel...