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...crew of the ship ever saw was the captain. Though they didn't know it, they were lucky in a way to have him. He gave them a focus for their resentment. The captain's chief competition came, for a while, from a young ensign fresh from midshipman's school. This boy, the "boot ensign" who took "indoctrination" seriously, was a luckless type in the Naval Reserve. Author Heggen writes of him sympathetically...
...NAVAL ACADEMY MIDSHIPMAN'S NAME WITHHELD) Annapolis...
...some infraction). For a long list of Class B offenses (from "hair not properly cut" to "window, throwing articles from") midshipmen sweat out hours of extra duty drills. For a shorter list of Class A offenses (malingering, obscenity, scandalous conduct, etc.) midshipmen brood in confinement in their rooms. Midshipman quip that there are still men from the classes of the '30s gathering dust in forgotten corners of Bancroft Hall...
...class is 18-year-old Negro Wesley Anthony Brown, who wrote grimly to Harlem's Negro Congressman Adam Clayton Powell: "I shall do my best to successfully complete the prescribed course. . . . In 100 years of service to the American people the Academy has not produced one Negro graduate." Midshipman Brown, not the first to try, has had high marks, has made one of the highest in the German Placement Test. He rooms alone...
...exercises at the Business School Monday morning, 160 officers in the Midshipman Supply School graduated, the fifth class to go through the 12-months course since the school's opening in March, 1943. Captain Bishop and Professor Richard S. Meriam addressed...