Word: nicholson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your obit of able Admiral Nicholson, under Milestones (TIME, Jan. 1) you say that he "was one of the two naval men in history to rise from the ranks to wear an admiral's four stars. (The other: John Paul Jones...
Sirs: ... Of Rear Admiral Nicholson you state, "he was one of two naval men in history to rise from the ranks to wear an admiral's four stars." Rear Admiral Nehemiah Mayo Dyer-Captain of the Baltimore during the Spanish-American War, also rose from the ranks to that of rear admiral...
...give him his due along with Admiral Nicholson & John Paul Jones...
Since a rear admiral rates only two stars, and a vice admiral only three, what . . . was Rear Admiral Nicholson doing with four ? Two on each shoulder...
Stars & Galaxies. At Mount Wilson, Dr. Seth Barnes Nicholson discovered two new, tiny satellites of Jupiter-only 19 and 15 miles in diameter-bringing the known total of Jupiter's attendants to eleven (of which four have been known since Galileo turned one of the first telescopes on the big planet). Professor Alfred Harrison Joy plotted the rotation of the Milky Way-the great star galaxy, six hundred thousand trillion miles across, to which the sun and all other visible stars belong. The regions near the centre of the galaxy are rotating fastest, the outermost regions slowest. By measuring...