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...first words were not "Re-co-verrrr booookks!" In March, several years later, 1938 to be precise, Civilian Kerr appears at a Navy Recruiting Station and commences his naval career. After 13 months as a seaman, he doffs his bell-bottoms for good and takes the oath as midshipman at the Naval Academy. Three years later, due to the acceleration of the course, he becomes an ensign USN and leaves immediately for a SoPac...

Author: By Midn E.T. Long, | Title: NAVY SUPPLY CORPS SCHOOL | 4/7/1944 | See Source »

This is the fifteenth class to enter the Communications School since it was first established here in 1942. Until last year the school served as a combined indoctrination and communications school for men with no previous midshipman or Navy experience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard NTS Loses Captain Barker | 3/31/1944 | See Source »

...other brother combine also comes from the West, hailing from Boise, Idaho, and Stanford. They are Ted Eberle, midshipman in the junior class, and Bill Eberle of the "sophomore" class in the midshipmen-officers' school. In direct contrast to the brothers Carney, Harvard makes the first time these two have been together during their naval career, Ted going to UCLA V-12, and NSD Oakland for temporary duty, and Bill heading inland to Colorado Springs' famed Colorado College for two semesters. They are both Stanford Kappa Sigs...

Author: By Midn. E. T. long, | Title: NAVY SUPPLY CORPS SCHOOL | 3/17/1944 | See Source »

...mystery of the week--who was the prowler in the ship's store? Not until the operator had turned in several complaints about the Midshipman who persisted in coming behind the counter; not until she recognized a painting of "The Old Man" in Baker Library; not until then, was the mystery solved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Lucky Bag | 3/10/1944 | See Source »

...quiet of a royal dukedom. A strict father, a stalwart mother and some reserve within himself gave him an air of strict propriety. A governess, tutors, a sergeant of the Coldstream Guards cultivated the necessary manners and arts. Naval schools (Osborne and Dartmouth), a sea tour as a snotty (midshipman) before and during World War I shaped him in his family's marine tradition. A childhood friendship produced his Duchess and his Queen, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, a gentle-born commoner. They have not yet produced a son; the heir, Princess Elizabeth, comes of royal age (18) next month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Man of England | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

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