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Colonel DeVere Armstrong, USA, professor of Military Science, rotated into his turn as master of ceremonies this year and welcomed the audience to the moist and heavy-aired Sever Quadrangle theatre after leading the speakers' party through two tight, stiff rows of cadets and midshipmen...
...gaff-rigged ketch Saltillo arrived from Nassau, skippered by strapping Don Juan de Bourbon y Battenberg, Count of Barcelona and 44-year-old Pretender to the Spanish crown. In Norfolk, Va. the four-masted training ship Juan Sebastian Elcano put into port with a crew of 72 midshipmen from the Spanish Naval College at Pontevedra, among them the Pretender's handsome son, Prince Juan Carlos, 20. It was the son who attracted most attention. Tall (6 ft. 2 in.), tanned, with close-cropped hair, Juan Carlos is Dictator Franco's candidate for the throne...
...Colonel Michael A. Boyd '58; the United States Marine Corps Gazette Award to Midshipman Ensign George H. Douse '58; the medals of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution to Cadet Lieutenant (USAF) John C. Rich, Jr. '59, Cadet Major (USA) Harold D. Gould, Jr. 3L, and Midshipmen Chief Petty Officer Charles E. Rossi '58; and the Reserve Officers Association medals to Cadet Captain (USAF) Bradshaw Langmaid, Jr. '58, Cadet Major (USA) John F. Post '58, and Midshipman Lieutenant Commander Peter B. Dunbar...
...undefeated swimming squad faces the midshipmen of Navy Saturday night at Annapolis. The swimmers have downed Army, M.I.T. and Penn. The two service teams are in the same swimming league as the eight Ivy League schools...
Horrifying Anonymity. With plodding determination, Novelist Ott follows a class of enlisted sailors through a tour of minesweeper duty, a session of midshipmen's school and a chilling succession of raiding cruises with the North Atlantic submarine wolf packs (Ott, 34, began the war as a minesweeper seaman, ended it as an ensign on a submarine). His style is lumpishly Teutonic, and the translator's cliches do not make it any smoother. Ott's impersonal handling of his characters, though it gives a horrifying anonymity to their cockroach deaths, also makes for interminable, dull stretches...