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...Rickover's time (class of '22), life for a Jewish midshipman at Annapolis was marked by some unpleasantness. But Rickover's temperament also caused some of his troubles. Rebellious, secluded, intellectual, determined to make high marks, he did not fit the conformism of the Academy. He took little part in athletics; he preferred study to bull sessions; he did not "drag" (date...
...bottom three men in the varsity lineup all turned in victories to seal the Crimson win. Number seven man Ed Rose gained a 5-15, 15-10, 17-16, 15-11 win over Navy's M. Ricketts and Guy Paschal swept Midshipman Ed Dawson by 15-13, 15-12; 15-7 scores. Al Stone took the varsity's sixth win of the day over M. A. Desseyn by 15-8, 13-15, 15-10, 13-15, 15-11 count...
...civil engineer, grew up in Grinnell, Iowa. He got into the Navy by accident when he wrote his Congressman asking for a West Point appointment. The Congressman had no West Point vacancies at the time, gave Radford a chance to go to Annapolis instead. As a midshipman, "Raddie" was a better-than-average student, graduated at 20 (class of '16), and was described in the Academy yearbook, Lucky Bag, as a "pink-cheeked Apollo...
...present modest and serious viscount, Rowland Arthur Herbert Nelson Hood, descended from the families of three British naval greats-Nelson, Hood and Hood's brother, Lord Bridport. A seaman like his ancestors, the present Lord Bridport went to the naval training college at Dartmouth, was a midshipman aboard H.M.S. Nelson for three years, fought as a lieutenant commander in World War II. Mussolini confiscated his duchy during the war, but Lord Bridport got it back and returned...
...White trained at the Navy Radar School at Harvard, and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, after attending Midshipman's School at Northampton...