Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Annapolis man who came up from the ranks--that's Lt., (jg) A.H. Kerr, Jr., battalion commander of the senior class...
Scene: It's last fall and on a battle wagon in the South Pacific Jaygee Kerr's eyes are going bad on him, at least bad enough to keep him out of the line. But the Navy is his career, and with his exemplary record it's a simple matter to transfer over to Supply, where the physical requirements are not quite so rigid...
Scene: Spring of 1939 on the U. S. S. Bushnell off the coast of Colombia. Yeoman striker Kerr interrupts his daily routine long enough to read a dispatch confirming his appointment to the Academy. It was a happy day in Seaman 2/c Kerr's life, for the dispatch was the fulfillment of his motive for joining the Navy...
...graceful bride of the Swedish Charge. Nobody was fancier than the Norwegian Ambassador wearing every shape, cast, color and size of medal, decoration and ribbon. The new Ethiopian Minister, small and black, shone in his gold-braided costume. British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr walked like a new Privy Councilor, impeccable in tails. U.S. Ambassador Averell Harriman looked like a nervous young curate at an Episcopal convention-out of place in his too long, double-breasted business suit which he had tried to formalize with a stiff collar. The collar only served to make him seem uncomfortable. Mmes. Litvinov...
Most of the guests ate buffet style. But in a small back room the Molotovs sat with Harriman and his daughter Kathy, radiant in a long Alice blue gown; Clark Kerr and Alexander Korneichuk and his wife, Wanda Wasilewska, in a black silk skirt topped by a smart white lame jacket. When asked about Polish relations, Korneichuk, the new Foreign Commissar for the Ukraine, spoke charmingly about plans for rebuilding Kiev...