Word: quarterdecks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Newly arrived from Antarctic waters, the Soviet whaling factory ship Slava and the U.S. icebreaker Glacier lay within hailing distance of each other last week alongside the broad quays of the Montevideo waterfront. Russian Captain Alexei N. Solianik paid a courtesy visit. He was gravely received on the quarterdeck by Rear Admiral George J. Dufek, got an illustrated lecture on the Glacier's part in Operation Deepfreeze, and a copy of R. B. Robertson's 1954 bestselling memoir. Of Whales and Men. On his way down the gangway, he invited the U.S. officers to pay a return visit...
Last week, her decks awash with some 120 of the international set's most solvent globetrotters, the Achilleus set sail from Venice to tour the Isles of Greece. On her quarterdeck, resplendent in the blue-and-gold of what seemed to be the official uniform of a six-star admiral of the Nepalese navy, stood Elsa herself. "We're going to see Greece, and Greece is going to see us," she shouted as 50 cases of champagne were stowed away in the ship's hold. But, despite the wine, Admiral Elsa insisted, the Achilleus cruise...
Hiccuping lightly, Betty was whisked off the Hollister, and the embarrassed Navy decided not to press an official inquiry into several unanswered questions, e.g., who helped smuggle Betty aboard, and how did she manage to slip past the quarterdeck watch? By week's end silence had settled over the incident, to which Betty herself, back at her favorite haunt, Kilroy's Club Alibi, was contributing nothing. "I was drunk," she said primly. "I don't wish to make no further statement...
...System. Everything considered, the admiral has presented his case with brevity, restraint and a quarterdeck command of facts now long on the record. The U.S. was unready at Pearl Harbor, says Kimmel, but not by his fault. The trouble, he says, was that Washington never told him what was cooking or where and when it might boil over. All through November, for instance, Washington was reading intercepted messages in which the Japanese consulate in Hawaii sent Tokyo pinpoint locations of Pearl Harbor warships. Says Kimmel: "The information received during the ten days preceding the attack clearly pointed to the Fleet...
...sympathy from the Somers' Queeg-like skipper. Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, U.S.N., 39, was vain and self-righteous; in 26 years at sea he had developed a fondness for quarterdeck sermons and main-deck floggings. He was aroused by the slightest threat to his position, and he soon hated Midshipman Spencer. As the cruise wore on, Spencer remained moodily aloof from his fellow middies, plied his cronies, Boatswain's Mate Sam Cromwell and Seaman Elisha Small, with illicit brandy and cigars. Soon Spencer was poring over charts of the West Indies, boasting wildly that he would take over...