Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arrived, in London: Admiral Marc Andrew Mitscher, commander of the U.S. Eighth (Atlantic) Fleet and Vice Admiral Forrest Percival Sherman, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, en route to the Mediterranean for a "normal [and timely] inspection of naval forces in Europe...
...week's end, when the Williamsburg moved into Narragansett Bay, he was sporting a two-day beard. He had a second sensation in reserve. When the yacht tied up at the Quonset (R.I.) Naval Air Base, he broke out a cap which made shoreside loiterers blink-a white creation with a wide bill and a billowy crown which flopped like a tam-o'-shanter. Thus arrayed he was driven to the Plum Beach home of his new naval aide, Captain James H. Foskett, where he contentedly attacked a heaping dinner of ham and chicken...
Next day he received a selected knot of Rhode Island politicians aboard the yacht, went ashore to visit the Naval War College at Newport. Then, after waiting out a Northeaster, the Williamsburg headed seaward again...
Staid Argentines, whose daughters still may not date without chaperones, could hardly be expected to swallow all this without an occasional harrumph. One oppositionist deputy introduced a bill in Congress to forbid public activity by officials' wives. Earlier this month, naval cadets coughed so pointedly during a newsreel of Evita that their Peronist C.O. saw fit to expel over 20 of them. But the Argentine-in-the-street likes...
Marking the first anniversary of V-J Day, the military and naval air forces will put on an exhibition similar to that which attracted thousands of New Englanders to the Bedford Army Air Base last week...