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...regatta at Cowes, on the Isle of Wight, on Aug. 6, 1921, was a gay and notable affair. King George V and Queen Mary appeared amid pennants and bunting, and the town swarmed with bluejackets from the U.S. battleship Utah, which lay offshore. One of them, Chief Yeoman Ralph Everett Crawshaw, a quiet young man, was mail clerk on the Utah. Whether or not he exercised a sailor's prerogative and got drunk that gala day was a question which for 30 years was to bother Navy brass, four U.S. Presidents and seven sessions of Congress...
...When Yeoman Crawshaw returned to the Utah he was dressed down by an officer for not bringing the ship's mail from Cowes. Next morning Crawshaw could not be found. A board of officers decided he had become "mentally demoralized by the use of intoxicating liquor or a drug," had crawled through a porthole and been lost at sea. The board ruled that Crawshaw's death was a result of misconduct...
Winthrop House will present "Yeoman of the Guard" as its third annual Gilbert and Sullivan production April 13 and 14, the House committee announced last night...
...West, Acheson thought, lay the hope of stopping Russian Communism. In his previous capacities at State he had done yeoman service in helping to prepare and win congressional approval of Lend-Lease, UNRRA, the World Bank, the Export-Import Bank and the Truman Doctrine. In a speech in the spring of 1947 he had outlined the ideas which George Marshall had taken up a month later, and which became the Marshall Plan. During the months immediately following Acheson's induction as Secretary, the West even held the momentary initiative. Acheson presided over the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty...
This week, for his yeoman work in safeguarding the lives and raising the health standards of both TVA workers and valley dwellers, Dr. Bishop, 64, got a top honor in his profession: a Lasker Award ($1,000 plus a gold copy of the Victory of Samothrace), given annually by the American Public Health Association. Three other Lasker awards went...