Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy was playing at war in two oceans last week. This was no cunningly timed cutlass-rattling. It was simply that both the fleet and the Marine Corps had green personnel who needed shaking down...
Tomorrow will see the Crimson fleet take to the water in the 440-yard freestyle, the 100-yard sprint, and the 200-yard breast stroke. John Watkins in the 100, Jerry Gorman, Forbes Norris, and Larry Mine in the quarter. Chuck Hoelzer in his butterfly specialty, and the three divers, this time from the three meter height, are slated to make up the Crimson card...
...Just whose face is behind the Mirror is still Fleet Street's biggest mystery (owners can conceal their identity in England as they cannot in the U.S.) The largest Mirror holding is the 20% owned by the Sunday Pictorial. Says a Mirror executive: "Mystery? There's no mystery. The Mirror owns the Sunday Pictorial, the Sunday Pictorial owns the Mirror, and the public owns both...
Cooks & Canned Music. Ships are the problem-not passengers. Of the fleet of seven new cruise ships which the Navy took over during the war, the Government-controlled but privately operated line has so far gotten back only two: the President Monroe, which will sail on the first postwar pleasure cruise, and the President Polk, which will sail on May 2. Each has accommodations-all first class-for only 98 passengers. So tickets are being rationed to one person or one couple from each state per ship...
...sister Ellen, 22, paid no heed, hummed tralala, wrinkled her "grotesque and powerful" nose, turned to give a gracious welcome to Homer Henshaw, a Harvard man. There was nothing left for Chloe" to do but to walk in the family garden. Almost before she knew it, handsome Gerrit Van Fleet was "grinding his blonde mustache into her lips...