Word: percivall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The topic laid out on the long mahogany table last week, as it had been the week before, was guided missiles-a subject which the Navy probably knows most about. The discussion was detailed and technical; it was also secret, and properly so. The man in the admiral's...
The second of a family of six sons-and a daughter, Forrest Percival Sherman was born to the headmaster of a small school in Reeds Ferry, N.H. (pop. 265) and to a mother whose forebears were John and Priscilla Alden. Shermans had fought with the colonists against the Dutch, gone...
Too light for football, Sherman made the fencing team, was pronounced by the Lucky Bag "supreme as a fusser [a genteel wolf] and yard reptile [a midshipman who squires the daughters of Annapolis captains and admirals]." He was also something of a teacher's pet. When a classmate asked...