Word: skippering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...event of war with Russia. One morning last week, 85 men-of-war (including the U.S. carriers Midway, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Wasp, the Royal Navy carrier Eagle and battleship Vanguard) steamed in stately grey lines out of the Firth of Clyde. On the F.D.R.'s bridge, Skipper George W. Anderson made an announcement: "Any man who spots a periscope before it attacks gets special liberty to London...
...crowd cheered as Mulloy walked out to the famed center court at Forest Hills, lean, fit-looking and brisk, but stiff in his stride, and greying at the temples. It was his 18th year in the singles matches, and Mulloy, decorated veteran of World War 11 (lieutenant commander skipper of an LST) and four-time U.S. doubles champion (with Bill Talbert), was making his first appearance in the finals. But the gallant, uphill fight against the youngsters of the U.S. and Australian teams was useless, and everybody in the stadium knew it. Across the net stood the world...
Meanwhile, he saw service in World War II on the rescue tugs covering the western approaches to Britain. The first and best half of Author De Hartog's new novel is set in these troubled waters. His hero is the skipper of one of the "suicide" tugs that stole out virtually unarmed (in the early days of the war, Britain had no guns to spare), to rescue disabled stragglers of the convoys from the prowling wolf packs of the German undersea fleet. The U-boats sometimes let the lame ducks stay afloat in order to get a shot...
Between his flirtation with death at sea and a busy affair on shore with a soulful but changeable girl, the captain ends his war in a moral frazzle. The skipper's problem, which is meant to symbolize the problem of the whole war generation, is to escape "the terrible pull of the dead." The pull drags the captain down to the ocean bottom quite literally, as a deep-sea diver, and there the lure of death almost claims his spirit. But at last a sensible miss hauls him up again, buffs the dull film of mysticism from his uniform...
...chose axial flow, even though Sir Frank Whittle, who pioneered jets, advised the other; Sopwith thinks the Sapphire proved his own judgment right. His choice of delta-wing at first shocked Sopwith's crack designer, Sydney Camm, who dashed off to Yorkshire to seek "The Skipper," crying: "I won't have it! I won't have it!" The Skipper's calm reply: "Why?" Designer Camm returned to his drawing board convinced. Says he: "When he asks you why and looks at you, you always find that there's no reason why. If there...