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Little Angeline Luceil Crowell reinvented herself as Ann Eden and snagged a millionaire, a good-looking twit in a naval ensign's uniform named William Woodward Jr. Ann worked hard at domestic life. She mastered French, hunted down pricey antiques at auctions and gamely entertained people with hyphenated names who clearly despised her. Above all, she yearned for Billy's virago mother Elsie to accept her. Billy, for his part, spent his time in bed with other women or at Belair, his beloved racing stable. Finally, on a chilly October night in 1955, after years of not-so-private misery...
...subject is the scandalous romance of the late 18th century's hottest couple: Lord Nelson, Britain's greatest naval hero, and Lady Emma Hamilton, the empire's most luscious pinup -- and wife of diplomat Sir William Hamilton. The story has usually been told from the straightforward missionary -- not to say colonial -- position. The Alexander Korda version, That Hamilton Woman, starring Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier, was Winston Churchill's favorite movie...
...option to use American military power in both places and has threatened to do so. Some of his political friends and foes urge him to act forcefully now, especially in Yugoslavia's civil war. He has suggested that he would consider the use of U.S. air and naval forces to safeguard relief shipments into Bosnia, but resists calls to do more...
...would be met by Secret Service agents and driven to one of three underground command posts. The PT boat, as well as an ultrasensitive underground command post at his Maryland presidential retreat, Camp David, were secretly maintained by an elite team of officers under the innocuous name of the Naval Administrative Unit. There was even brief consideration given to reconfiguring a Polaris submarine, removing the missile tubes to accommodate an undersea presidential command post...
Possibly even more embarrassing to the Navy was a videotape record of one of the Tailhook workshops that took place two hours earlier that same day, in which senior Navy brass -- including Chief of Naval Operations Frank Kelso and former Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III -- sat by as Navy officers jeered the idea of women in combat. "By not taking a stand at this moment, these gentlemen created an atmosphere conducive to what happened afterward," said a Navy officer who witnessed the incident...