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...places with our civilian sisters? Who would give up the comfort of flat heels and lisles, or our little gremlin suits or the mail-box mob or rows of wet white gloves, or disbursing problems, or our mail from Bu Sand A? Not We! We Would rather flirt with Portsmouth. After all, you could win fame knitting socks for chilly sailors-and who knows, membership in the Portsmouth Outing Club could be exciting-well novel anyway...

Author: By Ensign MARJORIE Willoughby, | Title: Creating A Ripple | 8/6/1943 | See Source »

...served as Admiral George Dewey's flagship. A year later she helped quench a flare-up in Panama. In 1905 special envoys of Russia and Japan met on board her during their peace conference at Portsmouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Hardy Perennial | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

...specimens from the Harvard supply school were neatly stacked from the deck of the cabin to the roof ... Yes, he had this stuff cold ... The G. A. O. was just a blow ... After all congress passed a relieving bill to keep all D. O.s out of Portsmouth after the last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NAVY SUPPLY CORPS SCHOOL | 5/28/1943 | See Source »

...because he was a pilot, and 50 per cent times his aviation pay because be was on a submarine. He also wanted an increase of five years longevity because he had five years in the Kansas State Sea Scouts ... Suddenly Ensign Drawers awoke ... Sure is great to be in Portsmouth, he mused...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NAVY SUPPLY CORPS SCHOOL | 5/28/1943 | See Source »

...Seventy-nine years old, long good friend and obviously contemporary of Groton's Peabody, Rev. Dom J. Hugh Diman, O.S.B., founded distinguished St. George's School in Newport, R.I. After his conversion, and subsequent ordination as an English Benedictine, he became prior of the Benedictine monastery in Portsmouth, R.I. At that time Father Hugh founded the School of St. Gregory the Great (Portsmouth Priory School). Portsmouth may become the first Abbey school in the U.S. No other man is the beloved founder of two "prep" schools. TIME should double its list. GERALD MCGUIRE New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 22, 1943 | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

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