Word: mate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ashore to enter the Maritime Commission's officers' training school at New London, Connecticut. Here a three months' course teaches him all the duties of an officer, including navigation, piloting, and handling of men. Finishing the New London course, the candidate undergoes a special examination for his third mate's ticket...
...much action. If he doesn't play much, either Hugh Hyde or Mike Fansler, slated to start at the guards, will move into his pivot post. Frank Bixler, high scorer against B.U., gets the starting nod at one forward, with either Dean Hennessey or George Dillon as his running mate. Mike Keene is the third guard...
Aboard a U.S. submarine in enemy waters of the Pacific, Seaman Dean Rector was down with acute appendicitis. The nearest naval surgeon was thousands of miles away. Pharmacist's Mate Wheller Lipes watched Rector's temperature rise to 106, knew his only hope was an operation. Said Lipes: "I've watched doctors do appendectomies. I think I could do it. . . . What...
Groaned Rector: "Let's get going." In the wardroom, about the size of a Pullman drawing room, Rector stretched out on the table beneath a floodlight ordinarily used for loading. The pharmacist's mate and assisting officers pulled on reversed pajama tops, masked their faces with gauze. From end to end the submarine, riding deep under the surface, was tense. Men stood by the diving planes to keep her steady. In the galley the cook kept water boiling in his kettles for sterilizing...
Last week Pharmacist's Mate Lipes was on furlough visiting his wife in Upper Darby, Pa. Of his first surgical patient he said modestly: "He had more nerve than...