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...BOWEN Rear Admiral, U.S.N.R. Chief, Research and Inventions Washington...
Stripped for Action. In Nora Springs, Iowa, town officials forked over $25 for running a truck with no headlights, no tail lights, no sidelights, no stoplights, no clearance lights, no identification lights, no flares, no red flags, no windshield wiper, no rear-view mirror, no license plates...
Animal Crashers. In Lexington, Mass., a deer charged through the front door of a music shop, charged out the rear. In Orange, Va., a footloose bull entered a department store, was captured before he found the china department...
...fall for no hifalutin notions about air power and that in the end the whole unpleasantness would blow over. Tardily the Navy tried to stiffen its defense, called in two of its younger top-drawer air admirals (both aged 49) to quarterback its plays. One was lean, whip-smart Rear Admiral Arthur Radford, father of the Navy's wartime air training program and commander of a carrier task group in the Pacific War. The other was quiet, studious Rear Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, "brain" of Admiral Nimitz' Pacific Fleet staff. In Navy circles they were considered...
...Comdr. Morison's adventures was unique in that it didn't quite happen. On the staff of Rear Admiral Walden D. Ainsworth aboard the U.S.S. Honolulu, he was on hand for the initial bombardment of Guam. "By that period of the war our fire support ships steamed so close to the coast that a native of Guam on the Honolulu could see his house, and proposed that he and I go ashore in a rubber boat as a two-man task force to give his friends the good word. Fortunately this plan did not appeal to Admiral Ainsworth...