Word: torpedoings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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June Havoc, blonde, scene-stealing Broadway musicomedienne, invited to a destroyer launching by Navy Lieut. George Gay Jr.-only survivor of Midway-famed Torpedo Squadron 8-gaily stole the Navy's show. The ship had hardly been christened H. J. Ellison (in honor of the Squadron 8 hero) when June turned to her host and cried: "George, I love you so much!" George blushingly admitted to reporters that June was his "girl...
...directly responsible for the Navy's improved press relations in the Pacific is Admiral Chester W. Nimitz' able new press chief, Captain Harold B. ("Min") Miller, 42, an Annapolis-trained airman, torpedo expert, author (short stories in Cosmopolitan, American Magazine), former U.S. Naval Air Attache in London. Captain Miller, who wrote the fast and full communique on the Battle of the Philippine Sea, a model of its kind, is the most likely candidate to become the Navy's top public relations man when and if Rear Admiral A. S. ("Tip") Merrill goes back to sea. Captain Miller...
...rough-and-tumble contest was largely similar to the 47 to 35 licking which the Crimson suffered at the Motor Torpedo Boat Base in Rhode Island last month. In handing the Varsity its twelfth defeat of the campaign, Melville showed an edge in height, experience, and stamina which proved too much for the Stahlmen...
After only the merest taste of victory last weekend, Coach Floyd Stahl's Crimson quintet went down to their eighth defeat of the campaign 47 to 34 Wednesday as they met a polished group of ball-handlers at Melville Motor Torpedo Boat S.T.C...
...ring up the win. Left forward Boyce led the winners with ten markers, while Francke and Flynn, at center and the other forward registered seven and six respectively. The B team will not be with the Varsity when it travels to Melville, Rhode Island, to meet the Metor Torpedo Boat S.T.C. tomorrow...