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Some 3,000 midshipmen will march from their grey stone barracks at Annapolis next week to hear handsome, ur bane Vice Admiral Aubrey Fitch open the ceremonies celebrating the U.S. Naval Academy's 100th year. There will be light moments, a "hop" in Dahlgren Hall. But essentially it will be an occasion for prayer ful thought both in the Chapel and the Administration Building next door...
...varsity men the schedule is even more strenuous. Footballers labor six afternoons a week, generally watched by "Jake" Fitch himself, who has never forgotten his own athletic undergraduate days. Not counted in any of this are hours of regular marching and drilling, and the hours of extra duty...
...have graduated since the Academy's founding, 15,000 are still alive (only some 2,400 had graduated by 1900). Among them are the commander in chief, U.S. Fleet, the chief of the Navy's Bureau of Personnel, who are directly responsible for Academy policies. (Jake Fitch only administers.) Academy alumni are admirals and captains-the holders of almost all the worthwhile jobs in the Navy-who have learned new doctrines fighting World War II, whose ideas directly and indirectly influence U.S. naval policy. They are also, in group, the men who studiously kept the Navy command plums...
Vice Admiral Aubrey W. Fitch, a 62-year-old flyer, had just taken command of the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Now the Army countered with a new West Point superintendent: Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, 44, commander of the loist Airborne Division. Handsome Missouri-born General Taylor, who speaks fluent French, Spanish and Japanese, will be the youngest Military Acaeemy head since young (39) Douglas Mac Arthur took over the Point in 1919. Taylor graduated fourth in his class the last year MacArthur was there...
...from the Western plains to the sea, to the air, to cops & robbers, and back to cowboys. At the crest, when it sold 95 million magazines and pulps a year, S. & S. had a stable of such writers as Upton Sinclair (who wrote under the name of Ensign Clark Fitch, U.S.N.), Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton and 0. Henry...