Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negro singer who warbles spirituals with a howling hep-cat beat. The Felds took over Washington's Griffith Stadium for the ceremony, for which 20,000 people paid from 90¢ to $2.50. The big spectacle included $5,000 worth of fireworks displays of a duck laying eggs, a naval battle, and of Sister Rosetta herself. The Superfelds, whose bookings now range from Charleston, S.C. to Pittsburgh, also have sponsored more conventional types of entertainment, e.g., Guy Lombardo, Billy Eckstine, George Shearing, and such road-show stage favorites as Don Juan in Hell, The Caine Mutiny Court Martial and John Brown...
...brief ceremony at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis last week, the three midshipmen who had been denied their commissions pending a completed security check solemnly raised their right hands and thus became officers, seven days after the rest of their class. Said the Navy's official release: "The Navy regrets the workload involved in screening and clearing such a large number of men in the time available resulted in a delay in the clearances of the three...
...great-great-grandson of President John Adams, great-grandson of John Quincy, cousin of Henry, yachtsman and onetime Secretary of the Navy (1929-33); after long illness; in Boston. He became an ardent Hoover supporter, but as Navy Secretary bitterly opposed Hoover's reductions in naval appropriations. America's leading yachtsman, he skippered the Resolute to victory over the late Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV in the 1920 America's Cup races, at the age of 73 brought off an unparalleled sweep of U.S. yachting's triple crown: the Puritan, Astor and King...
Citation: "Scholar and writer . . . a man broad and humanistic in his learning and his teaching . . . Without doubt, the greatest achievement arising out of [his] interest is his current project, a monumental history of United States naval operations, World War II ... [We] express the wish that he continue to enjoy . . . 'long stretches of pure delight such as only seamen can know, the moments of high, proud exaltation that only a discoverer can experience...
Some future programs: Queen Elizabeth's review of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in London, with a flypast of 100 planes down the Mall toward Buckingham Palace; the third round of Davis Cup matches from Paris; Queen Juliana of The Netherlands at a garden party; the world-championship soccer game between France and Yugoslavia; Siena's historic Palio horse race...