Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, as four opposing candidates battled to send her into defeat along with Hague in next month's primaries, Mary Norton sent word from the Bethesda Naval Hospital (where she was bedded with influenza) that, on her 75th birthday, she had decided to call...
...about everybody seemed to be in favor of sweeping with a wide broom through the nation's military hospitals. Defense Secretary Louis Johnson was sure that he could save more than $25 million by closing down five of them and reducing the staff of 13 other military and naval hospitals. He had behind him the documented findings of the Hoover Commission, which were studded with instances where one branch of the service reared up costly hospitals in areas where another service had long wards of empty beds. Who was blocking these reforms? Last week the finger pointed...
During most of World War II, Boone ran a taut, efficient ship as head of the big naval hospital at Seattle. But he got to sea again in time to represent the medical corps at the surrender ceremony aboard the Missouri. He became a top medical officer in the Defense Department and toured the country as part of the Hoover Commission task force on medical service...
...students admitted to his classes in naval architecture and marine engineering, this sort of thing seemed quite natural. Professor Seward liked to say that he chose them for "the salt in their veins"; they in turn called him "the Skipper." The son and grandson of sea captains, Skipper Seward had come to know as much about ships as any man could. He had stood on the deck of the German-built Leviathan on its trial run after World War I, had been called in to advise on the raising of the Normandie. He was special wartime consultant to Navy Secretary...
...years at Yale, he taught thousands of students (12,035 by his own careful log) how to be seawise as naval architects, engineers and shipping-line executives. His classroom itself was a ship, with the Skipper forward on his bridge, pounding the deck until class was over and it was time for all hands to go ashore. Last week, at 64, the Skipper announced that he would soon set the telegraph for good at "Finished Engines," and retire. Without him, Yale thought, it would give no more courses in naval architecture and marine engineering...