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...World War I, Corny naturally joined the Navy. He went to the first "90day wonder" class at Annapolis, served as forward turret officer on the armored cruiser Montana, later had a destroyer hitch, and ended his service in 1919 as a lieutenant j.g. But even naval duties did not prevent Corny Shields from doing some racing. In those days, each squadron had a sailboat or so for racing competition, and in the post-armistice winter of 1918-19, when Corny was stationed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, he skippered the winning 33-footer in a fleet competition...
...Turret Smiles. It is no longer surprising for anyone in Malaya to see Sir Gerald and Lady Templer rolling down the road with their smiling heads sticking up out of an armored car's turret. No soldier, policeman, home guardsman or public servant knew when Templer might appear, demanding accurate answers to sarcastic questions. In his air-conditioned office in King's House, he-plotted daring innovations in guerrilla warfare: planes which fly over the jungle broadcasting recorded messages from captured guerrillas; a plant poison spray to clear the roadsides of ambush areas...
...building was acquired by the College in 1935, it was sacrificed, or at best modified, to the demands of what seemed to the Yard like a new-fangled science--Astronomy. The Dana House became the College observatory, its rooms filled with instruments. On the roof was a revolving turret on wheels for telescopic use ("Caboose" snorted Felton) and a transit mechanism rested in the main room...
After Professor George Herbert Palmer arrived, the turret went, and the house received some remodling. Palmer lived there the longest of anyone--from 1884 to 1933, existing on "the decay of Greece", as he put it--and presented the Yard with the last half of the house's name. Richard S. Gummere, retired director of Admissions, occupied it until Conant moved in, dispossesed from his own lodgings by the U. S. Navy. The President moved back down Quincy Street in 1946, and by the next year, the house was in its present location...
...night. He once got himself punished for letting off fireworks in the head. A pale, slim sublieutenant, sometimes doubled up with pains diagnosed much later as an ulcer, he saw action in the Battle of Jutland, where, as "Mr. Johnston," he was second-in-command of "A" turret aboard H.M.S. Collingwood. "The King," remembered Turret Commander W.E.C. Tait years later, "made cocoa as usual for me and the gun crew during the battle...