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...night clubs, theatres, and cafés, dragged out every customer who looked like a Jew, beat him bloody on tho sidewalk, and slugged any women who seemed to have been with Jews irrespective of whether they were Jewesses or not. A spectator startled by these German deeds was Midshipman Ernest Wood Jr., U. S. Navy, son of a U. S. Army chaplain. "I was standing on a café terrace when a woman was knocked down by a man," said Midshipman Wood. "Another woman protested and she too was knocked down. Then the big fellow who had done...
...What Midshipman Wood did about it could not be revealed without getting him into trouble with Naval Academy authorities on the U. S. S. Wyoming, which is taking several hundred midshipmen around Europe with none too happy results.* Although admiring shipmates credited small Midshipman Wood with beating up the big Nazi, getting arrested and paying a $20 fine, the German Government officially informed U. S. Ambassador William E. Dodd that no such arrest occurred. Police along the Kurfürstendamm took little interest in the Jew hunt. When not in full cry after a Jew, zealous huntsmen, swinging paste pots...
Only U. S. Naval Academy midshipman ever to win five "N-stars" for victories over Army, Fred ("Buzz") Berries of Louisville, Ky., took a re-examination in English, passed, graduated as No. 385½ in his class. Day before graduation, Midshipman Borries stepped before the regiment, received from Rear Admiral David Foote Sellers the Navy Athletic Association's sword as the Academy's outstanding athlete. Following graduation Ensign Borries had his epaulets pinned on, was presented with a big hug & kiss by "Gussie" Mae Hanley of Washington...
...morning, onetime (1929-33) Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams put on a pair of old sneakers, hopped into a Star Class yacht, beat the Naval Academy's champion small-boat skipper, Midshipman David Seaman, by 50 yd. in a 2½ mi. race in Annapolis Harbor. In the afternoon, President Roosevelt snuggled down into the referee's launch, streaked up the river from Annapolis to watch three crews, two of them the ablest in the East, race 1¾ miles down the Severn for the Adams Cup. Pennsylvania had beaten Princeton, Yale, Columbia. Navy had beaten...
Engaged. The Infante Juan, 21, youngest living son of ex-King Alfonso XIII of Spain, midshipman in the British Navy; and Princess Marie Mercedes of Bourbon, 24, daughter of Prince Charles of Bourbon. Because his two older brothers, the ex-Prince of Asturias and the Infante Jaime, renounced their rights and married commoners, the Infante Juan is heir presumptive to the Spanish throne...