Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was one other pleasant chore for the President before he drove to his Gettysburg farm to spend the New Year holiday: the presidential gift to 1,100 White House employes, including the crew of the Columbine III, naval personnel from Camp David, motor-pool mechanics and servicemen who guard the presidential helicopter. Assembling at the White House, each staffer received a print of a new Eisenhower oil painting titled Deserted Barn-a weathered red barn with a ragged hole in the roof and a rusty old pump and a small wagon standing in a weed-rank yard. The President...
...meticulous Alice Little, it turned out, had brought home more than sea shells and memories. Early in World War II, U.S. Naval Intelligence heard that she had lived in the west central Pacific, interviewed her. To the Navy's delight, Miss Little rooted out other items in her collections-maps, charts and the journals she carefully kept for the board of missions on trips around her islands aboard the sailing vessel Morning Star. Out of the faded books and charts leaped such facts as these: how the tides swept in and the heights of shoreline cliffs, how deep...
Last week Alice Cowles Little died at 93. And in the midst of the sea shells and pressed plants and a vast collection of postage stamps, friends found a well-creased, patently cherished letter from Naval Intelligence thanking the little old lady from Oberlin for her role in the successful wartime invasions of the islands Tarawa, Makin and Kwajalein...
...born sickly and died in 1948), he and Madame de Gaulle have founded in her memory an institution for retarded children. At the 14-room house in Colombey, where he still spends his weekends, he loves to play the patriarch of the clan, gathering about him his naval officer son Philippe, his daughter Elizabeth (married to an army officer), his three grandchildren, and as many as possible of his 17 nieces and nephews and innumerable grandnieces and grandnephews. To the children, he is benign, loving "Uncle Charles...
Leyte, by Samuel Eliot Morison. One of history's decisive naval engagements masterfully recreated...