Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Item: as superintendent of the Naval Academy at Annapolis from 1947-50-he was the youngest in 50 years-he was shocked to discover Academy-based enlisted men living near by in trailer camps. A midshipman's first lesson must be concern for enlisted men's welfare, he told the brass in Washington, and Annapolis of all places must set the example. He came away with the first Wherry housing units the Navy ever...
...Item: as chief of the Navy's Bureau of Personnel from 1953 to 1958-he held the job longer than any other Navy officer in 75 years-he was one of the few flag-rank officers who fought the Navy's real Lord Plushbottoms to push the promotion to flag rank of Hyman Rickover, prickly pioneer of the atomic submarine. One day, to a group of young naval officers, he summed up his philosophy of leadership in a way that defines his value to the nation today. Said he: "You men probably do not think...
...Times-Star was journalism's second major loss in the space of a single week. Only a few days before, rising costs and lagging ad sales had forced Publisher David Stern III to sell the afternoon New Orleans Item (circ. 101,604) to the Times-Picayune Publishing Co., which owns both the morning Times-Picayune (circ. 189,758) and the afternoon States (circ. 101,916). Contributing to the 81-year-old Item's failure: the "unit" ad rate of the Times-Picayune and States, which forced national and classified advertisers to take space in both papers, or neither...
Twenty years ago. only eight of the U.S.'s 50 largest cities were one-owner newspaper towns. With the demise of the Times-Star and the prospective death of the New Orleans Item, the total will...
...middle item, Shadow Play, is a confused, stylized soap opera about a marriage on the rocks. It uses flashbacks, flashaheads, and flashbetweens, with songs and rhymed couplets tossed in, if you please. It shows that the two stars ought not to sing in public; but it does provide a good final examination for lighting technicians and stagehands...