Word: pearl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since the war ended, Navy youngsters in their 50s have been sitting around waiting for their barnacled elders to retire. Last week two announced that they were actually on the verge of doing it. Swashbuckling. 62-year-old Admiral William Frederick Halsey proclaimed in Pearl Harbor: "I'm an old man; let the young fellows take over." A few days later his boss followed suit. Icy, 66-year-old Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King proclaimed: "I'll retire . . .about the first of January...
This underground bistro has since become the Ken Club, where such bands as those of Red Allen, Bill Davison, Gene Sedric, and Frankie Newton played in the period from Pearl Harbor until early '44, after which a new entertainment policy featuring a juke box was adopted...
...sized ships (i.e., battlewagons) in the deal, said one respected Admiral, who added that if he had his way he would sink them all. Only in the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea, airmen argued, had the battlewagon served as more than a fat flakship-and they were pre-Pearl Harbor ships at that...
...Before Pearl Harbor, Tokyo's largest newspaper, Asahi, was considered sufficiently pro-American to have once had its plant wrecked by irate militarists. And after Japan's fall it was still the most favorable to the U.S. of Tokyo's six dailies. (Editorialized Asahi: "The Tojo military clique represented deliberate arrogance, ignorance, self-complacency, vanity...
...free learning: the Japs then were too sensitive to U.S. opinion to move in. But they ordered President Stuart to hoist the puppet-regime flag and to give personal "thanks" to the Jap militia for the invasion. Dr. Stuart refused, and got away with it. For three years before Pearl Harbor he was used to transmit peace feelers between the Chinese and the Japs. At 8:20 a.m., Dec. 8, 1941, Dr. Stuart's freedom ended...