Word: spencers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wesleyan, with a favorable wind forced the play throughout the first period. Crimson fullbacks Hugh Sergeant and John Hadik broke up the Cardinal's aggressive thrusts for the first five minutes, but the forward line of Ken Spencer, Pete Deacon and Bob Bretscher broke through at the 6:25 mark. The goal went to Spencer, his third of the year...
Wastrel's Billet. Acting Midshipman Philip Spencer, 18, was the dreamy, wastrel son of John Canfield Spencer, U.S. Secretary of War under President John Tyler. Thrust into the Navy by his stern father as a last resort, young Playboy Spencer found the ship's discipline and crowded quarters unbearable...
...Somers' Queeg-like skipper. Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, U.S.N., 39, was vain and self-righteous; in 26 years at sea he had developed a fondness for quarterdeck sermons and main-deck floggings. He was aroused by the slightest threat to his position, and he soon hated Midshipman Spencer. As the cruise wore on, Spencer remained moodily aloof from his fellow middies, plied his cronies, Boatswain's Mate Sam Cromwell and Seaman Elisha Small, with illicit brandy and cigars. Soon Spencer was poring over charts of the West Indies, boasting wildly that he would take over the Somers...
When Commander Mackenzie got wind of Spencer's fantastic threats, his imagination boiled over. His ship, he wrote, was about to become "a lawless wanderer upon the deep." He clapped Spencer, Cromwell and Small in irons. But, he felt, the crew's every move showed "sullenness" and "portentous" looks, and four more "mutineers" were put in irons. Spencer and his two cronies were executed without trial, hanged from the yardarm, and ceremoniously buried...
Hero's Fate. In Washington, Secretary of War Spencer flew into a rage, was assured by Navy Secretary Abel Upshur that justice would be done. As the details leaked out, Author James Fenimore Cooper denounced Mackenzie's "terrible transaction." The Navy promptly began a drawn-out court-martial at Brooklyn Navy Yard, eventually exonerated Mackenzie and set him free to continue his career (he died five years later...