Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beach. After Midway the Navy brought Jimmy Thach home, set him down to a job of rewriting fighter tactics, teaching gunnery and tactics at Jacksonville, planning a dozen training films. Good-natured Jimmy Thach went at it earnestly, flying, shooting, lecturing and jotting down notes in his little black book (where once he listed his squadron in the order he thought they would be killed, found his predictions, based on tactical skill, generally correct...
...word has gone around the Navy that, at 38, Jimmy Thach has had enough of the beach for a while. He wants to get out to battle, update tactics once again, because he thinks that in battle experience counts for more than youth. (Flatley is 36, O'Hare 28. the Navy's famed dive-bomber Gus Widhelm...
...Jennings, "I put five on the nose to win." Mr. Turner, "Don't you think my hew Beach Cloth whites look pretty sharp...
Divorced. Henry Junkins ("Bob") Topping Jr., 28, lion-shooting tin-plate heir ($9,000,000) ; and Latin-eyed Gloria ("Mimi") Baker Topping, 23, Bromo-Seltzer heiress ($10,000,000); after four years of marriage (his second); in Palm Beach. She got custody of Sandra Emerson Topping, 3, and Henry Junkins Topping...
Died. Lawrence Waterbury, 65, onetime ten-goal poloist; after three months' illness; in Palm Beach. He was the last surviving star of the great American team of Monty and Larry Waterbury, Harry Payne Whitney and the incomparable Devereux Milburn, first to win the International Cup from the British, winners of every game in the 1909, '11 and '13 matches. He was also three times national amateur racquets champion...