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...graduate "ring knocker" of the class of 1959, U.S. Naval Academy, I must say that I agree with Mr. Boroff in his criticism of the methods and curriculum at the Naval Academy [Feb. 8]. After almost four years with the Pacific Fleet, I have become acquainted with many officers of civilian-college backgrounds. In this time, it has become evident that the course of instruction at the Naval Academy is lacking in the breadth of its horizon and the depth of its technical preparation...
What do they think my knocker...
There are only two buildings, one apparently a residence of sorts, with simple wooden steps leading up to a green door, which has a brass knocker. Though it is late afternoon, there is a bottle of milk and a folded newspaper on the bottom step. The effect is conservative...
...front door is a' massive triptych of oak and brass with a 20-lb. knocker that sports Venus and Neptune hanging from the jowls of a metacanine beast. If you walk in hurriedly, you are instantly outdoors again in a huge courtyard, having passed through a small hall with flooring that is a mixture of Pennsylvania linoleum and Spanish tile. The courtyard is full of rosebushes, boxwoods, a grape arbor, and mirrors on an inland wall that reflect the sea. A statue of St. Francis stands in the center in a filled-in pond that once, in another era, brimmed...
Spiritualist Ford's autobiographic apologia does not demand agreement from the reader; table rapper as well as spirit knocker can enjoy it as the record of an unusual man. Ford first noticed that he was unusual when a shavetail at Camp Grant. It was late in World War I, and thousands of soldiers were dying of influenza. Lieut. Ford had to pick up the lists of dead, and one morning he realized that he knew what the names would be before he got the lists. At a loss to explain his strange precognition, he wrote Mother back in Florida...