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...golden basso cantante (a lyric bass rather than a growler) with a natural authority onstage, Siepi won himself an opening-night ovation as the dignified king in Don Carlo. Then, a month later, he shed the dignity like a shirt, became an inspired and pompous fool as Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville. He turned next to Mephistopheles in Faust, sang and acted with his customary conviction...
...Walter Karig, and Sink 'Em All, by Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood. Unfortunately, each book spills some of the drama in the detail, but they make clear that the undersea arm now has handsome traditions of its own. Examples: the stories of the Barb, the Tang and the Growler...
...Growler's story is the story of Commander Howard W. Gilmore. From the bridge one black night, he spotted an enemy gunboat. He swung the Growler away to ready his torpedoes, swung back to attack. In the darkness he did not see that the enemy had reversed course and was bearing down on him. Too close to use torpedoes, and directing from the bridge, he rammed the Growler into the gunboat at 17 knots...
...them hurt, slid down the hatch, but not Gilmore, who was helplessly wounded. His last order, in a crisp voice, was "Take her down." He had to say it once more before his executive officer closed the hatch, took her down, leaving his skipper to drown. The Growler made it home, to fight again...
...training in Fachenburg, Bavaria, started at the age of nine, when after school chores in his father's shop were in order. These chores were good experience in more than shoemaking. Rushing the growler for his father, Peter found it expeditions to slip off a hit of the beer that might otherwise have spilled in transit. "In a family of fourteen, anyhow, there never was enough milk for everybody...