Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edwin A. Falk's Togo and the Rise of Japanese Sea Power, the chapter which describes the British phase of his naval education is entitled: The Decks That Nelson Trod. Togo and his naval heirs might have been - but were not - molded by "the Nelson touch," as Admiral Nelson himself referred to his way of fighting. Essence of the Nelson touch was the order: "Close with the enemy." Allied naval officers still revere and in some cases (notably Cunningham of the Mediterranean and Halsey of the South Pacific) still have the Nelson touch: their one desire is to find...
This is not necessarily a defensive doctrine. Nelson's spirit has been matched by some Japanese naval officers; the difference is one of strategic doctrine. Nelson believed in destroying the enemy fleet. The Japs believe in letting their armies destroy the enemy's land force. Supply lines are the essential of offense, since armies travel on their stomachs and win by firing ammunition which must be transported to them...
Less than three years ago, boyish, trigger-tempered Ted Nelson, 36, was an $11-a-day welder in San Francisco's Mare Island Navy Yard. His financial resources hardly bulged his vest pocket. Last week Ted Nelson, in his own spick-& -span new $330,000 San Leandro plant, received an Army-Navy E, topped off the celebration by announcing the opening of a second plant in Camden, NJ. in a few months. He had skyrocketed up on a Buck-Rogerish invention of his own, aptly dubbed the "rocket...
Paris operas, with their over lavish settings, are ideal meat for the color camera and although Nelson Eddy never was too appealing as an actor, he can roll that bartone of his. Claude Rains, of "Casablanca" fame, portrays the third violinist, and incidentally, the masked phantom. Eddy and the gondrame officer, Edward Barrier, put on a rather amusing and seemingly original Alphonse and Gaston performance at the mere presence of the budding opera star, Susanna Foster...
...cliff-girt Malta Harbor, still showing the scars of Axis bombs, royalist Marshal Pietro Badoglio and a retinue of aides went last week. They were piped aboard H.M.S. Nelson...