Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...northeast, at the harbor city of Keelung (pop. 150,000), the 13,600-ton cruiser Helena, flagship of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, lay at anchor. Aboard the Helena, the atmosphere seemed as cheerful as that ashore. The fleet's commander, a quiet, three-star admiral named Alfred Melville Pride, one of a long line of seafaring Prides (see box), went about his daily routine with casual efficiency. The mood aboard ship was one of unruffled waiting. Vice Admiral Pride and his topflight staff had events well enough in hand so that he could tip back in his chair, grin...
...clock one morning last week, Vice Admiral Alfred Melville Pride arose in his cabin aboard the cruiser Helena, had toast and coffee, and turned to the papers stacked on his ash-blond desk. He worked silently, sending out blue memo slips with terse messages, e.g., "O.K., I'll go along with this," or simply. "Let's talk." He finished his correspondence by 9 o'clock. Then, one by one through his brown Fiberglas door curtain came the top officers of Pride's Seventh Fleet for a conference. Pride greeted them quietly. These were men who measured...
Since arising, he had turned in a maximum amount of work with a minimum of fuss and bother. The U.S. Seventh Fleet reflected the relaxed efficiency of Mel Pride, who, despite a distinguished record, is a stranger to the public...
...Pride was born in Somerville, Mass., to a family that had numbered at least five ship captains. His father, after a try at the sea, turned to building houses. Mel had an early taste of salt water; he often went to Ipswich to fish from a dory for cod and pollack, and there were excursions in the family's home-built power launch, the Emmie Lou. Mel spent his 17th summer as a deckhand on a cousin's steamer, serving Bras d'Or Lake in Nova Scotia...
...Tufts College, in Medford, Mass., Pride was a B-plus engineering student when World War I came. There was no family discussion; Mel simply showed up at home one day in a sailor suit. He had enlisted in the Reserve as a machinist's mate second class, with the specific intention of becoming an aviator. After ground training at M.I.T. he went to Pensacola and learned to fly the Navy's N-9-an old Jenny dressed up with a pontoon and wing floats. Commissioned a Reserve ensign, Pride was designated Naval Aviator...