Word: ernest
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Book-of-the-Month is the biggest jackpot an author and his publisher can hit (an average of $75,000 to split between them, plus larger sales in bookstores). Book-of-the-Month Club authors include Pearl Buck, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Gather...
Moment of Glory. But the Salt Lake City rose to her most heroic moment for a new skipper, Captain Ernest G. ("Shorty") Small, on the night of Oct. 11-12. That night she was hunting destroyers which had been reinforcing the Japs on Guadalcanal. She found more: six cruisers, six destroyers, a transport and auxiliaries. First, her ten guns set a light cruiser ablazing. Twenty rounds from her crack batteries were enough to finish a heavy cruiser, blowing up its entire midsection. Other U.S. warcraft and the Salt Lake City joined fire to sink one of the auxiliaries. Then...
...Eskel Carison, St. Sgt. Donald Peters (Pers. Sgt. Maj.), St. Sgt. Thomas Carlino (Pay Clk.), Sgt. Robert Purser (Supply Sgt.), Cpl. Ernest Foltyn (Pers. Clk.), Cpl. Byron Lamberd (Mail & Chauffer...
Like a ship well navigated, the Midshipmen of the Navy Supply Corps School, since coming to Harvard, have been guided in their course by the capable administration of three Naval Officers, Lt. Commander Ernest C. Collins, Lt. F. W. Martin and Lt. (jg) C. A. Anderson...
Directly in charge of the unit, is Lt. Commander Ernest C. Collins, a veteran Navy man and Annapolis graduate. Lt. Comdr. Collins, also a graduate of the Harvard Business School, has seen service in many waters including disbursing duty aboard the USS Nevada and with destroyer divisions afloat. Other tours of duty included the Naval Air Station at Cocosolo, Canal Zone, the Naval Supply depot at San Diego and as Supply Officer on the USS Savannah