Word: mate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First star was the sailor: Gunner's Mate Second Class Mel Van Keuren, wounded at Pearl Harbor, where he was the first man to bag a Jap plane. He had studio telephone operators put through a call to a nurse named Rosella Nesgis, in Pearl Harbor. It seems that while nursing Sailor Van Keuren's wounds, Rosella had also read him his favorite comic strips. Hopping to the phone, he blurted happily to her: "I never look at Popeye without thinking...
...unqualified success, the "Three Greatest Guest Stars" were showered with proposals of marriage, offers of post-war jobs. Gunner's Mate Van Keuren was offered a movie contract. They had easily stolen the show from Ginny Simms and Dave Rose's 22-piece orchestra. But Ginny didn't mind any more than her sponsor. Still stroking her rabbit's foot, she guessed she had a sure-fire program as long as there is an Army, Navy and Marine Corps...
Knox the Politician. As the Republicans' running mate for Alfred Landon in 1936, Frank Knox exhibited all his strength, and all his weaknesses. He knew from the start that his ticket was licked, but never admitted it. He set off on a 22,000-mile campaign tour full of thunder and adrenalin, never stopped castigating the New Deal, never lowered his voice below a victorious shout...
Among the men training the students of the Navy Indoctrination School is Chief Boatswain's Mate Donald L. Elser, who was All American full back at Notre Dame in 1935. Elser is now one of the Yard's many Naval inhabitants, and was chosen to give Navy students physical training, as many other prominent athletes are doing...
Another student, Frank French '45, asked his room-mate to awaken him at a specified hour. But he forgot for a moment that said roommate is a radio and recording expert. He remembered fast enough, though, when he heard what sounded like the bells of Big Ben ringing in his ear--an alarm clock rigged up to a powerful amplifying apparatus...