Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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H.M.S. Sheffield, flagship of the American Gulf & West Indies Squadron, had just done Britain's honors at the inaugural cf Venezuelan President Rómulo Gallegos. Last week, she lay at anchor off the Colombian coast, while her handsome senior officer, Vice Admiral Sir William Tennant, went inland to pay courtesy calls in Bogota. An urgent order flashed from Whitehall: proceed without delay to British Honduras. Taking Sir William aboard at historic Cartagena, the Sheffield raced northwest for Belize. Over from Jamaica, by a second order, steamed the 9,850-ton cruiser H.M.S. Devonshire with a detachment...
...experience is quite serious," Bennett admitted, "but all our men have played the game before," First teamer Sandy Calhoun played for a Manila team in 1941 and also for Andover while Emil Van Peborgh got some experience in the Argentine. Bennett has playing time behind him at the Squadron "A" indoor area in New York. On the second string, Tim White, brother of two former Harvard players, played in Cleveland; Tom Calhoun, brother of Sandy, also rode in Manila; Emery Houghton wielded the mallet in Arizona. "Unfortunately some of us haven't been on a horse since before...
Felton and teammate Bob Forsyth are expected to nail first and fourth (for a total of seven points) in the opening event of the meet, the 35-pound weight throw at Squadron A Armory early this afternoon. These points alone will probably be enough to put the Crimson into the first ten teams in the 42-college field. Three or four more will land Harvard in the first five leaders...
...Johnny Littler was a China coaster, sailing offshore and threading the tricky passages of the Yangtze. Through the war, he was one of the Royal Canadian Navy's ace navigators. On Atlantic convoy duty, said he, "the Admiral thought nothing of going to sleep while I took the squadron through the Smalls" (reefs at the entrance to Bristol Channel). With Littler as navigator, Canada's first cruiser, the Uganda, steamed 80,000 miles and never missed a rendezvous. Littler gave radar much of the credit, called it the most valuable...
...annexation of Hawaii to the U.S. He sent back able reports on sugar growing, the fertility of the soil, missionary activities (his California newspaper pals began to call him St. Mark), even had the foresight to see the islands as a "commanding sentry-box for an armed squadron." And his humorous lectures on the islands, when he got back home, gave him his first widespread reputation (he outdrew Actress Fanny Kemble 1,500 to 200 in Pittsburgh, packed London's largest hall six nights running...