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...Decks. Radford's first duty after graduation was on the battleship South Carolina, which had only one Atlantic convoy job and was otherwise used for training. When the Navy sent out its first postwar call for academy graduates to take flight training at Pensacola, Radford jumped at the chance, and might have gotten into the first Pensacola class if his ship had not been in Honduras. He made the second class, and got his "bird" (pilot's wings) as Naval Aviator No.2896...
...Vice President William Brooks it is a miracle that The Quick and the Dead ever reached the air. Some network executives protested that it was too controversial; some scientists, fearing sensationalism, were at first reluctant to help; and the cast of 19 had to be tracked from Pensacola to Hollywood with recording equipment. "No two people on the show ever saw each other," says Friendly. The only bonus offered to any member of the cast was to an Army major general, who had to come up to New York from Washington and was rewarded with two tickets to South Pacific...
...great game of politics was being played without benefit of rules in Florida last week, and the knee-action and eye-gougings could be felt from Pensacola to Fort Lauderdale. Fast-talking George Smathers had learned the art of campaigning from Senator Claude Pepper. Running against the master (TIME, April 3), he showed that he had learned how to pour salt in Pepper's old wounds. Fishing out an old newspaper clipping at every campaign stop, Smathers read Pepper's reported 1946 advice to the U.S.: pray for Joseph Stalin because he is; the kind of man Americans...
...spent three years in the service, a year as a Marine pilot instructor at Pensacola. A Navy doctor found that he had the eyesight of one man in thousands. It pays off handsomely at the plate, though Williams himself thinks his eyesight is not the secret of his success. The ability to stand up to a fast, close pitch without flinching comes first, according to Ted, and eyesight is next. The third most important factor, Ted thinks, is "power, and the power is all here, in the wrist and forearm. Timing comes last. If you have the power...
Florida-born Martha Beck appeared to be eminently respectable. She was the mother of two, a Methodist, an experienced hospital superintendent. Little Ray got her name through a "Lonely Hearts Club" where he started most of his pitches, and he wrote her admiring letters. But when he went to Pensacola to meet her, he discovered that she was not quite his type-she had no money. Also, she weighed 200 Ibs., had wrestler's arms, a terraced chin and the cold eye of a jail matron...