Word: farragut
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...admiral who could boast of having served with Nelson at Trafalgar would still have known only a fraction of the history of war at sea. But, like a considerable group of still serviceable flying officers, silver-haired, cigar-smoking General Nathan Farragut Twining has personally navigated sloops, junks and frigates of the air. When he was named to succeed General Hoyt Vandenberg as chief of staff of the jet-age Air Force last week, he had already lived, airwise, almost since the beginning of time, and had participated actively in three of four major eras of warfare...
General Nathan Farragut ("Nate") Twining, 55, now the No. 2 man in the Air Force under Chief of Staff Hoyt S. Vandenberg. A second possibility: General Ben Chidlaw. 52. head of the Air Defense Command at Colorado Springs...
Yankee Buccaneer (Universal-International) is vaguely based on the life & times of U.S. Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, whose classic "Damn the torpedoes!" was uttered when he sailed through the Confederate mine fields during the battle of Mobile Bay in 1864. The picture is a Technicolored version of some of Farragut's pre-Civil War activities when he sailed in 1823 on a U.S. mosquito fleet assigned to scuttle West Indies pirate ships...
...picture has it, the U.S. Frigate Essex, on which young Lieut. Farragut (Scott Brady) served, was disguised as a pirate craft to trap the buccaneers. On board the Essex, Farragut seems to have spent as much time scrapping with hardhearted Commander David Porter (Jeff Chandler)-actually his best friend-as he did fighting the pirates. Also aboard, it appears, was a beautiful Portuguese countess (Suzan Ball) who is nowhere mentioned in maritime annals...
Yankee Buccaneer has more than its share of pitched battles, broadsides, plank walkings, scurvy epidemics, pirate attacks and pistol-point escapes. It even has a man-eating shark which Farragut subdues. But it is still no great shakes as either Hollywood hokum or history...