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...California State Guard and, fatefully enough, was attached to a unit which had its headquarters at Marion Davies' children's clinic. But he married Baritone Lawrence Tibbett's exwife, Grace. He attended a maritime officers' school, went to sea, and ended up as a skipper of Navy tankers. During one of his long voyages, the ex-Mrs. Tibbett divorced him. On subsequent homecomings his slight acquaintanceship with Miss Davies finally blossomed into real friendship. She introduced him to her good friend, Mr. Hearst, and took to calling him Uncle Horace...
Underwater, in its natural element, the atomic sub will have a destroyer's speed: 25 knots for steady cruising, 30 or 35 knots in emergencies. Her skipper will have an airplane's joystick to maneuver his craft in steep turns and dives, "fly" it like a fighter pilot in fast attack runs. Since the SSN's atomic engine needs no telltale snorkel to suck down air, it can travel deep underwater indefinitely. Its cruising range will be limited only by the ability of its crew to stand the tedium of days or weeks underwater...
...Edinburgh for its 113th annual meeting, the British Association for the Advancement of Science heard some frank and challenging criticism of British science and technology. The speaker: the association's president, H.R.H. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh,* until a month ago skipper of H.M.S. Magpie in the Mediterranean. It was aboard his little frigate that Philip, working on navy signal pads, scrawled out the first draft of his speech...
...Skipper Mathiot wasn't complaining. While Slo-Mo-Shun V also took the second heat, Mathiot and Crewman Tom Whitaker sat it out in the pit, working on a balky engine. "Aw, we're in this race for fun," said Mathiot. "What the hell...
Requiem. Sherman (Annapolis '17) became a naval aviator after World War I, was soon one of the Navy's best (he won a personal "E" for dive bombing and fighter gunnery). During World War II, as skipper of the aircraft carrier Wasp, he won a Navy Cross for his handling of the ship when she was torpedoed off Guadalcanal. Later, as Admiral Chester Nimitz' chief planner, he devised the Navy's brilliant leapfrog tactics in the fight across the Pacific...