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...nearly two months, 21-year-old Eugene Landy, No. 2 honor graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, had been officially dishonored. In refusing him the usual ensign's commission, the Navy said he had been "extremely close" to his mother, a former Communist...
...Thomas a Becket impressed the King with his courage (he would ride to war at the head of his own troop of knights) and skillfully helped Henry rule his vast realm. But to keep the King's peace, Becket had to keep peace with the King. Monarch and merchant's son became friends. Hawking in the marshes of Essex or carousing in the taverns of Cheapside, they were seldom apart...
Nasser began organizing the year of Abdin. "I watched the officers who came through the schools. I'd get them talking in groups. Then I'd pick the best man in the group and talk to him in private." He married the daughter of a respectable carpet merchant, lived a quiet life. He did not look like a conspirator. Appointed to the staff college, he ran a cribbing service for those who wanted to pass examinations for staff jobs. Says he: "They were obligated to us." Looking around for a nominal leader who would inspire respect, he found...
...even with diesels until 1940, today is the world's largest maker, has turned out 100 million diesel horsepower, more than the capacity of all the steam-generating plants built by industry during the same period. Burning low-cost oil, diesel engines today propel 49% of all U.S. merchant ships afloat, handle most of the. nation's roughest construction jobs, from road building to rock-crushing. Predicts G.M.'s Harlow H. Curtice: "Within ten years we shall have duplicated the efforts of the preceding 22 ... It took G.M. from 1933 to 1955 to build 100 million diesel...
Divorced. By Sterling Hayden, 39, merchant mariner turned cinemactor (The Eternal Sea): lynx-eyed, blonde Betty de Noon, 33, sometime model; both for the second time (his first: Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll), after eight years of marriage, four children; in Hollywood...