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...evening three weeks ago Admiral Hugh Rodman, U.S.N., retired, settled down in an armchair in his Washington home to spend a placid hour with the placid Evening Star. Suddenly his eyes fell upon a press photograph that brought him smartly to attention, soon sent him angrily scurrying for pen and paper. The picture in the Evening Star was that of a painting intended for the current Public Works of Art Project exhibition in Washington's Corcoran Gallery. Its title: The Fleet's In. Its artist: 29-year-old Paul Cadmus of Manhattan. Its subject: drunken sailors and bawds...
...Admiral Rodman was mad clear through. The Navy, his Navy, to which he had given 47 years of his life, had been grossly libeled by a young whippersnapper who knew nothing about the service. Later Admiral Rodman penned more than 1,000 indignant words to Secretary of the Navy Swanson. Excerpts...
...first four men on the team are veterans from last year, ranking in the order listed: Sandy Davenport, John Ray, Frank Jones, and Franklin Whitbeck. The last two places on the team are being hotly contested by Germain Glidden, John Wilkinson, Sumner Rodman, and Carl Helmholz...
...sailors in the painting, like Mr. Cadmus, are employees of the Government, and the Navy Department has spent a lot of time and money in combatting the tradition that its ship personnel on shore leave habitually disports itself with liquor and the ladies of the yellow filet. Admiral Rodman, who qualified as an art critic by commanding the naval forces overseas in the World War, complained that the picture originated in the imagination of one who knew nothing about sailors and their habit of spending shore leave playing ping-pong in the Y.M.C.A. The Secretary of the Navy...
Last year's men now out for practice are captain Serbert E. Danenport '34, John F. Ray '34, Freeman F. Jones '34, Franklin P. Whitbeck '35, Sumner Rodman '34 and Marvin P. Richmond '34. The Sophomore men who have reported are Justine J. Thachara '36, August C. Helmholz '36, Richard W. Gilder '36, Gordon F. Robertson '36, James A. Roberts '36, and Germain G. Glidden...