Word: captain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, Captain Burke drove ahead at flank speed. Under a promise from Defense Secretary Louis Johnson of no reprisals, he testified before the House Armed Services Committee last October, presented a dispassionate defense of the Navy's cherished supercarrier which Johnson had summarily ordered abandoned soon after the keel had been laid...
Last week Arleigh Burke, 48, found himself at the center of a fight for which he was poorly equipped. His name had appeared on a list of 22 captains recommended by a Navy selection board for promotion to rear admiral. Then, mysteriously, the board was reconvened and ordered to do its work over again. When it had finished that time, Burke's name was not on the list. It had been replaced by the name of Captain Richard P. Glass, Navy Secretary Francis Matthews' 51-year-old aide, who would be retired from service if he were passed...
Shepard modified his usual tight man-to-man defense, frequently changing to a localized zone with Rockwell and Smith Shifting men under the basket. Watching the game from the sidelines was last year's quintet captain Chip Gannon, now coaching at Springfield's American International College...
Harvard's three-man indoor team of Captain Walter Beveraggl at number two position, Tom Calhoun at number one, and his brother Sandy at back, got a slow start in the unfamiliar building. Cornell, which had just returned from defeating Princeton, 16 to 4, had a 3 to 0 lead at the end of the first chukker...
Shepard will carry his new travelling squad to Springfield tonight. Making the trip to the Western Massachusetts college will be Smith, Rockwell, Jim Gabler, Gerry Murphy, Bill Hickey, Captain Bill Prior, Cliff Crosby, Dick Covey, John Stevenson, and Quent Stiles...