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...requirement of morale...demand[s] that nothing be done which may adversely affect the situation. ...[T]he enlistment of Negroes, other than for mess attendants, leads to disruptive and undermining conditions." From the U.S. Navy policy on racial segregation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stick to Your Guns | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

During most of the time America was falling in love with Williams -- charmed by his TV character Mork, thrilled by his semi-improvisational comedy on cable-TV specials, charmed again by his early movie roles (in Moscow on the Hudson, in Garp) -- his life was pretty much a mess. "I think I had my mid- life crisis at around 27," says Williams, who was 26 when Mork & Mindy went on the air. In addition to too much trivial sex, there was too much vodka and bourbon and way too much cocaine. "It was like symbiotic abuse. It was Dr. Jekyll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Peter Pan for Yuppies: ROBIN WILLIAMS | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

Harvard has the luxury of four offensive lines for the first time in a few years. Its top three units have been playing fairly consistently. The second line-Minkus, Mess-more, junior Kim Landry--have created a lot of scoring opportunities and have drawn numerous penalties with their fiesty play. The third liners--sophomore Emily Buxton, freshman Diana Clark and senior Laurie White--have done a fine job when on the ice. Unfortunately it does not take regular shifts when play is marred by penalties...

Author: By Liz Resnick, | Title: Icewomen Defeated by Wildcats, 5-2 | 12/13/1991 | See Source »

...helpless battlewagons. The West Virginia took six torpedoes, then two bombs. One large piece of shrapnel smashed into the starboard side of the bridge and tore open the stomach of the skipper, Captain Mervyn Bennion. A medic patched up the dying man's wound, and a husky black mess steward, Doris Miller, who had once boxed as the ship's heavyweight champion, helped move the stricken captain to a sheltered spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Day of Infamy | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

...officers' mess ((when)) the officer of the deck came flying in to say planes were dropping bombs. Within 100 yards was a plane with a big red dot on it. I thought it must be a war game -- the reds against the blues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembrance It Must Be a War Game | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

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