Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good ballplayer, but until four years ago his game was football. At Chicago Latin School, Johnny was a triple-threat halfback, but never spent much time at baseball. The Navy nabbed him before he could decide which college football scholarship to accept, and sent him to the Great Lakes Naval Training Station...
...transmitter. In the center of the.machine he came upon a 6-in. cylinder labeled "Destructor." The cylinder contained two dynamite caps and a tube of thermite. Trippler's little find fascinated Detroit cops, the Michigan state police, the War Assets Administration, the Military, Air Force and Naval Intelligence...
...Charles G. Ross, the President's long-faced press secretary, did not smile. He did not know that the photographers had arranged the flight with one of the President's naval aides. Ross confiscated the photographers' plates and 400 feet of movie film, because nobody had his permission for the trip...
Shears & Shorts. When the newsreels came back, Truman aides trimmed out 21 feet (showing the Winter White House and a nearby naval installation), and Ross's face was saved, technically at least. They released all the informal beach scenes that Ross had wanted to suppress. Later the President did his best to bail out Ross. Jokingly, he told newsmen that "the Boss" (Mrs. Truman) had warned him: "Don't you have any pictures taken of you in a bathing suit. One slipped by at Bermuda [in 1946] and it's been a disgrace to the family ever...
...them is 48-year-old Provost Albert C. Jacobs, onetime Oxford lecturer in jurisprudence, wartime naval reserve captain and professor of law at Columbia. Professor Jacobs, provost since 1947, will be Ike's "principal assistant," act as his "alter ego and successor during the president's necessary absences from the university or in the event of an emergency." The other deputies...