Word: reservists
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...Huberth, onetime Manhattan real-estate dealer, has managed Hearst's eastern land holdings for 40 years. Dapper Dick Berlin, previously in charge only of Hearst magazines, is another old hand, who first won the friendship of Mrs. Hearst in World War I, when he was a young Naval reservist and she was doing something for the boys. The new face in the triumvirate is ruddy-cheeked, fastidious. North Carolina-born, Yale-trained Banker Hanes, 52, who joined Hearst in 1940. Wall-Streeter Hanes once defined himself as a "financial doctor" who did not ask his patient's politics...
...that score evidence already existed, especially in the air branch, that the Navy meant what it said. The Navy's roster listed many a naval air reservist of captain's rank. Two former aviation reservists who stayed in after the last war were al ready respected flag officers: Rear Admiral George Henderson, Rear Admiral Alfred M. Pride...
...young reservists had shown any enthusiasm over staying in uniform after World War II. Navy officials hoped that they might still change their minds, banked on the fact that many a young reservist with no other specialized schooling than what he had had from the Navy would conclude that his best chance for the future lay in a naval career...
...Tell the story of the Navy's part in this war . . . particularly those early days, when the Japs were having things their own way, and when we had to examine every scrap of information with a microscope for fear it would be helpful to the enemy." Karig, a reservist and former Washington newsman, and Kelley, former radio scriptwriter and author of a melodramatic novel, So Fair a House, spent months combing combat reports in the Navy's secret files, interviewing officers who had taken part in those first, mostly disastrous, actions...
...ugly duckling painted on the bow. The duckling pointed to itself with one wing and above was the legend, "Who, Me?" The skipper was Theodore Berlin, a slender, dark Reservist of 22 who had come to the Navy from the University of California at Los Angeles...