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High above the chaos sat NBC Stars Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, seemingly lashed to a specially designed table that looked like two large boomerangs joined together. A dumb-waiter lifted hot food and hot poop up to them from below. Said Huntley: "We're on the quarterdeck of the mother ship...
...York, Eddy's younger brother, a naval officer. After a suitable interval, bluff George and reticent May were married, and set up house at York Cottage, near Sandringham, practically a split-level by royal standards. George had his quirks and foibles, and his language owed more to the quarterdeck than to his quarterings. But he had more character than a bulldog and, like May, he was frankly a square. "There seems to me to be too much money spent on gilding. I hate gilding," was one of his rare judgments. Each night while George was in his library with...
John Paul Jones, by Samuel Eliot Morison. From boudoir to quarterdeck, John Paul Jones was a storybook figure, and no one has told the story better than able Sea Scribe Morison...
...official help in keeping up with the duke. Though the prince is traveling by private jet plane, propeller transport and yacht, no British reporter-not even one who is accredited to Buckingham Palace-was allowed aboard. Following as best they might, the newsmen could expect only rudeness or a quarterdeck tongue-lashing when they got close. The duke has been especially testy about the swarms of Indian photographers. At New Delhi he asked irritably, "Who are all these people?", and turned to Prime Minister Nehru to remark cuttingly: "I thought there was a film shortage in your country...
...George VI, a man who had the feel of the quarterdeck, would not let the crowd vent its bitterness on the exiled David. They had parted as brothers: "D & I said goodbye, kissed, parted as freemasons & he bowed to me as his King," his diary noted, and he was not going to see him deprived of all honor in his former kingdom. Sir John Reith of the BBC wanted to introduce David in his farewell speech as "Mr. Edward Windsor." On King George's insistence, he became instead His Royal Highness Prince Edward...