Word: naval
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Navy gained three first places--including the 400-yard freestyle relay--and a rash of seconds. Middie Gerry Nay scored a surprise victory in the 200-yard breast-stroke, shearing almost one second off a Naval Academy record. His time was 2:27.4. Ralph Zani and Ken Emerson placed second and third...
...Naval School (Naval Justice) Newport...
...guess I lead about five lives," McGann says, with a smile of white teeth under his black mustache. As a member of the finance committee in Bellingham (his home town), an officer in the Naval Reserve, a tutor, an instructor, and a father, he rarely finds time for vacation--save for the antics of his kids. "Oh boy, it's fierce at night," he muses, "but marvelous to see them grow up. I remember my six-year-old turned to me at dinner one night and said, 'Daddy, when I'm forty years old, you'll be dead'. It took...
Marrying a Radcliffe girl in 1943, McGann left for Peru, where he became a Naval Observer and later in Buenos Aires, an Assistant Naval Attache. His fascination for Latin America did not develop at the University, however, where he majored in modern European history. After his junior year, a classmate urged him to join a snake-catching safari on the Amazon River. Glancing at the primitive spears in the corner of his room, he remarks, "After driving sixty miles up and over the Andes, we took a forty-foot mahogany canoc down the river, shooting at random crocodiles. . . I didn...
...naval aide, Ike picked one of the Navy's best young officers: Commander Edward L. Beach, 34. Ned Beach was a wartime submarine hero (Navy Cross, Silver Star, etc.), later wrote Submarine!, the liveliest and most authentic account of underseas combat to come out of World War II. He began his sub service aboard the renowned Trigger, which sank at least 27 Japanese ships, wound up the war with his own command. As postwar skipper of the Amberjack, he made himself a terror to carrier admirals during war games. His favorite trick was to sneak up on a carrier...