Word: skippering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foot bed, 24 extra-size ashtrays to catch cigar ashes, a supply of brandy, and a personal radiophone for "scrambler" calls from shore. The departure was held up for 24 hours while a crew repaired damage suffered on the Queen's easterly crossing-"the worst crossing," said her skipper, "that I have made in 37 years...
...Wallace had once "digested," and which later died. Kenneth W. Payne came from the North American Review, at 61 is now executive editor of the Digest. The managing editor, Alfred S. ("Fritz") Dashiell, came from Scribner's. After the Review of Reviews and the Literary Digest folded, Howard ("Skipper") Florance, who had edited both, came over; as senior editor, he now runs the "planting" of Digest-originated articles in other magazines. Other ex-editors who joined Wallace: Business Week's Marc Rose, American Mercury's Paul Palmer, American's Merle Crowell, Liberty's Fulton Oursler...
After 17 months, Captain Gallery got command of a "jeep" carrier. She had a name to conjure with: Guadalcanal-and "I wouldn't swap my cruise as skipper for all the Admirals' stripes in the Navy." One of the Guadalcanal's few veterans was a chief boatswain's mate, with 15 years' experience. When Gallery asked him what he thought of the crew-80% of whom had never seen salt water before -the chief said: "Cap'n, I'd swap 'em all for a bucket of oily rags." But the kids (average...
...wintry waning moonlight, the skipper of the heavy cruiser Los Angeles, Captain Robert N. McFarlane, brought his ship about and within range parallel to the coast. From the naval post ashore came the map coordinates of the Red troops. In Lieut, Donald A. Marksheffel's main battery plotting room, seamen worked out range and meteorological data, fed it into a boxlike mechanical computer. The No. 3 gun turret swung around toward the target, its 8-in. muzzles rising slowly. Marksheffel dropped a hand, and a seaman pressed a warning buzzer three times with his left hand. With his right...
Bishop, Charlie Hoppin, and Jim Nathanson will skipper for Harvard. Crows will be: George Robertson, Dean Howells, "Butch" Horner, and Ken Kanrich...