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...sail had to learn to make right decisions instantly, he argues. That Jimmy Bisset learned his lesson well is shown by his accident-free later service. On the Queen Mary he carried as many as 15,000 U.S. soldiers at a clip through the Atlantic's sub-infested waters, ferried Winston Churchill to rendezvous with President Franklin D. Roosevelt-enough adventure for another volume. When Cambridge University gave him an LL.D., its orator called him "navigatorum principem, tempestatum hostiumque irrisorem" -prince of navigators and scorner of danger, from both storm...
...Holloway ('19) has carved a commendable seadog career. During World War II he steamed in with the first African invasion as a destroyer squadron commander, later commanded the battleship Iowa in strikes against the Japanese home islands. To send Lord Jim to Lebanon, the U.S. dusted off a sub-command that had not been used since the Suez crisis: CINCSPECOMME (Commander in Chief, Specified Command, Middle East...
Returning from Moscow, Nasser deplaned in his Syrian sub-capital of Damascus and rushed to a balcony to proclaim the Iraqi victory...
...Indian speakers, Miss M. A. Devaki, research associate of the Indian Cooperative Union, and Tiruvenkat Seshadri, senior sub-editor of the Times of India, agreed that India's domestic and foreign dilemmas stem from the role of international leadership it has had to assume since...
...superintendent of schools in Petersburg, Mich., at one point also coached the boys' basketball team. She began teaching at the U. of Michigan in 1920, during her years there wrote and edited some of medicine's basic works on neuroanatomy, gathered probably the largest collection of sub-mammalian and mammalian brains in the world. At Ann Arbor, she earned a sparkling set of honorary degrees and a sentimental tag from student physicians: "Angel of the medical school...