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Forty-nine members of the Naval ROTC Unit will receive commissions in the United States Naval Reserve or in the United States Marine Corps Reserve tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock during exercises which climax a seven term accelerated program of study. Vice Admiral W. S. Pye, USN. President of the Naval War College of Newport, Rhode Island, will award the commissions and address...
...Kimmel and Chester William Nimitz, in that order. Franklin Roosevelt had picked the first name. This time, said Knox, he would be satisfied with the second name from the same list. The President agreed. Nimitz himself demurred; he suggested that the command should go to Vice Admiral William S. Pye, who had taken over temporarily from Kimmel after the disaster. But he accepted his orders, and started west in civilian clothes, under the pseudonym of "Mr. Wainwright," by rail to San Diego, and thence by air to Pearl Harbor...
...Kimmel's staff, and the scratch staff which had served Pye during the last days of December. In particular, Nimitz had to appraise balding Captain Charles H. ("Sock") McMorris, Kimmel's war plans officer, who had said (a week before Dec. 7) that Japanese airmen would never surprise Pearl Harbor. In BuNav, Nimitz had seemed a hard executive, despite his amiable manner. He had found the Bureau slack, and had made it taut. The officers whose careers had seemed blasted by Jap bombs and torpedoes expected Nimitz to sweep them all out to some naval Siberia...
...wonder why the Lads in the Blinking Light class wear dark glasses? ... Heck, I don't have any trouble falling asleep without them ... R. E. Pye didn't have any trouble along those lines either when he dozed off listening to "Minus One ... Take off Two Points...
From these brief maxims young Washington was clearly a fussy eater. "Spit [not] forth the Stones of any fruit Pye," he warned. "Cleanse not your Teeth with the Table Cloth." Washington also barred spitting during meals ("except there's a Necessity for it") and getting rid of edibles by throwing them under the table...