Word: lesson
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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...
...books" (little ones). Though experiences in a square-rigger would seem to be of small use to the master of a modern liner, Bisset insists there is no better training. Any man in sail had to learn to make right decisions instantly, he argues. That Jimmy Bisset learned his lesson well is shown by his accident-free later service. On the Queen Mary he carried as many as 15,000 U.S. soldiers at a clip through the Atlantic's sub-infested waters, ferried Winston Churchill to rendezvous with President Franklin D. Roosevelt-enough adventure for another volume. When Cambridge...
...orderly arrangements of the paraphernalia of culture. And James not only fitted in, but brought along a system with him. Wolfe, of course, was a little long in some directions and too thin in others, to reconcile with the filing cabinet. Morris took it all as a moral lesson, and went about looking for stones and leaves and unlocked doors...
...caught-some to their own amusement-in the middle of the war between Rebel Fidel Castro and Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Their captor and genial host: Raúl Castro, Fidel's younger brother, who was mistakenly convinced that the U.S. is arming Batista. Wishing to teach Washington a lesson, young Castro decided to kidnap Americans wholesale from the neighboring sugar mills and nickel mines, and from among the personnel of the U.S. Guantanamo naval base. But he was also at pains to let his captives know that he meant no offense...
...banker doing his civic duty, Belgium's ex-King Leopold III, who was forced by Socialist pressure to abdicate seven years ago, nobly accepted tutoring in the use of an American-style voting machine at the Brussels Fair from U.S. Pavilion Guide Beverly Ann Bailey. After the lesson, Leopold thoughtfully selected Lincoln as favorite statesman, Edgar Allan Poe as favorite author, Louis Armstrong as favorite musician. Poll completed, he issued a safe royal comment: "Very interesting...