Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pride worked, as always, calmly. One day an overexcited deck officer gave a command: "Full speed ahead!"-instead of "All engines ahead full." Pride did not bawl out the officer for using unnautical, storybook language. The admiral made his point by adopting the same tone. "Yes, and damn the torpedoes!" he cried melodramatically...
...Navy had found out enough about Pride to name him chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics-the first non-Annapolis man ever to head a bureau. He kept out of public participation in the unification and B-36 battles, but Admiral Robert Hickey, now chief of staff to the Navy's Far East commander, says: "He was in there fighting, you can bet on that, but nobody would even have known...
Fourteen months ago Admiral Pride was given command of the Seventh Fleet. When he transferred his flag to the Helena, his cabin was one that had once been prepared for President Truman. The walls were painted robin's-egg blue, there was a television set and a spinet. Said Pride: "Goodness gracious, what's going on in this boudoir?" Actually, the spinet was not a bad idea: Pride likes to make music, plays the piccolo, flute, harmonica and ocarina...
During World War II he picked up a "nose flute," used by South Pacific islanders who like to make music and chew betel nut at the same time. He was recently heard to play Abdul, the Bulbul Ameer on this odd instrument. At nights aboard the Helena, Pride's staff gathers in the wardroom for informal musical sessions, with the ship's paymaster banging out tunes on the spinet in the key of C (which is the only one he knows) while other musical officers toot away on harmonicas...
Copper Proppers. While its atomic-powered pride, the Nautilus, was undergoing her first diving tests General Dynamics declared a 100% stock dividend, and raised its cash outlay from $1 to $1.10 a quarter: the stock scooted up 14¾ points during the week, to 96⅝. Remington Rand reported a third-quarter net of $5,003,268 v. $3,144,787 a year ago, and its stock jumped 6⅜ points, to 40; giant General Motors reported quarterly net of an estimated $2.50 v. $1.60 m 1953, and near-record earnings of $806 million for the year v. $598 million...