Word: naval
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...participate in Naval ROTC for four years and in the fall of 1941 he indicated that he would join the submarine corps. However, it was only after he was commissioned (one hour after graduation in June, 1942) that his interest in international problems quickened. And it was only in Harvard Law School, from which he graduated 1948, that Peabody began to think seriously of the political career which brought him back to Soldiers Field as a campaigner this fall
...developed a childhood love of the sea while running an outboard motorboat in the waters off Long Island's South Shore. A bright kid, he zipped through a Jesuit high in fast time, graduated at 16. When he heard that Manhattan Congressman Ogden Mills had a couple of Naval Academy billets at his disposal, Anderson wrote a persuasive letter requesting an appointment. Mills, who did not represent Anderson's district, wired back: Establish residence in Manhattan and the appointment is yours. Anderson did so, entered the Annapolis class of 1927 and was graduated 27th...
...long obvious that the big (6 ft. 2 in., 180 Ibs.), handsome naval officer-among other things, he is called "Gorgeous George"-was headed for big things.* He flew Grumman fighters from the carrier Lexington, was a landing signal officer on the carrier Yorktown, executive officer of a squadron of PBY patrol planes. In 1943, he saw action in the Pacific as navigator and tactical officer aboard the newly commissioned Yorktown (the first carrier Yorktown went down in June 1942). He then held down an assortment of desk jobs in postwar Washington, and in 1950 was named operations officer...
Inevitably, fate itself makes a difference. California's Democratic Congressman Clem Miller died in an airplane crash and his Democratic colleague, Dalip Singh Saund, is confined to the U.S. Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md. because of a stroke. Miller's name will be on the November ballot and a special election will be called if he wins. Saund's wife Marian, a Hollywood schoolteacher, is campaigning...
...seven years running. He was also, said his defense attorney in a plea for mitigation, a man with "a weakness which has been with him ever since he came into this life." His weakness did not get him into real trouble until 1955, when he was with the British naval attache's office in Moscow. At a dinner party arranged by a Pole, Vassall recalled, "I was plied with very strong brandy," and soon he found himself engaging in "several compromising actions" on a divan with "two or three" other men. Having thoughtfully filmed the occasion, Soviet intelligence agents...