Word: midshipmen
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...morals of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis were secure, after midshipmen had given one performance of Boy Meets Girl. The play, a faintly risque farce, was obviously too much for the superintendent's wife-she swept out at the end of the second act. The superintendent, Rear Admiral James L. Holloway Jr., followed. Next day the rest of the play's three-day run was abruptly canceled...
...Navy rule had always been: no talk of women, politics or religion in the wardroom. But for two years now, Annapolis midshipmen had been sponsoring something called the Wardroom Panel, where such guests as Navy critic Rear Admiral (ret.) Ellis M. Zacharias, Columnist Frank Kent, Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer and Lord Inverchapel could damn the torpedoes or anything else they pleased. Some did and some didn't. Last week Cartoonist-Author Bill Mauldin, who used to be an Army enlisted man himself, stood up front. As usual, no officers were invited, but a record 1,200 midshipmen turned...
Mauldin's remarks, which would surprise no readers of his Up Front but did not exactly follow the Annapolis line, brought enthusiastic applause. His audience knew what he was talking about: of 2,815 midshipmen at the postwar Academy, 54% have done time as enlisted...
...OTHER MIDSHIPMEN...
...Annapolis' blue-jawed, balding, postwar midshipmen, TIME'S ensign is dipped in apology...