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...beat on the long swing from Portland to Pensacola was the mechanical marvel, Byron Nelson (TIME, Oct. 23). At Gulf port, the two finished in a tie, but the man with the flawless form bowed to Slammin' Sammy in a 19-hole playoff. Afterwards it came out that Snead could have won the day before if he had not penalized himself a stroke-for nudging the ball on the all-important last hole (no one saw it but Snead...
Unlike some admirals, he had never gone to Pensacola in middle age to take a course in aviation which would qualify him to wear wings. But he listened attentively while his flying officers-"Bull" Halsey, Forrest ("Fuzz") Sherman, Frederick ("Ted") Sherman, Aubrey W. ("Jake") Fitch-argued the case of the carrier-cruiser task force. Nimitz was convinced. He sent Halsey out on the hit-run raids which buoyed the fleet's morale, and the nation's, early...
Noms de Guerre. In Fort Lewis, Wash., one Arthur Admiral signed up for service in the Navy. In Pensacola, Fla., Chester O. Ensign Jr. was commissioned a Naval ensign. At Camp Beale, Calif., a new arrival was Private Kemp Beale. Fighting side by side with the Third Army, a 2nd Lieut. Patton outranked, in his platoon, a Private Eisenhower. Missing in action in Luxembourg was Chief Warrant Officer Ralph States, son of Mr. & Mrs. United States of Ridgway...
BETTY LEE KUHN Pensacola...
...outfit itself was the hero, and one of the greatest turned out yet by the Navy. Its skipper, Commander Joseph Clinton Clifton, a 36-year-old precision product of Annapolis and Pensacola, had seen to that. Sinewy "Jumping Joe," who was never known to sit in a chair more than 30 seconds at a time, had put the group straight on his views right from the start. They were a team; there was no room for hot-shots or prima donnas no time for the slightest bit of sloppy flying, bad shooting, lazy tactics...