Word: cruiser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marching Saints. By helicopter, Ike swung down to the deck of the U.S. Cruiser Des Moines, flagship of Vice Admiral George W. Anderson Jr.'s Sixth Fleet. On his cruise through the Mediterranean, the President finally got a chance to unwind. He slipped into a sports coat and slacks, watched an after-dinner movie, turned in early, slept one night for nine hours...
...bombing and strafing tactics next day for the benefit of the press party that was billeted aboard the accompanying aircraft carrier Essex, and Ike watched that for a short time. All hands got a glimpse of fine old Navy tradition when Des Moines steamed past Britain's cruiser H.M.S. Tiger, the flagship of NATO Mediterranean Commander Admiral Sir Alexander Bingley. Tiger boomed a 21-gun salute, her band blared out The Star-Spangled Banner, Des Moines's band blasted back God Save the Queen, and Essex's band tootled out with When the Saints Go Marching...
Died. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Rhoderick Robert McGrigor, 66, tiny (5 ft. 4 in.) fighting admiral who captained the battle cruiser Renown that stalked and sank Germany's Bismarck in World War II, commanded the first Allied landings in the toe of Italy and was blown from his ship during the assault, was appointed First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff (1951-55); in Aberdeen, Scotland...
...Added meetings with Tunisia's President Bourguiba, the West's warmest friend in North Africa, and Spain's Generalissimo Franco to his tightly scheduled, 20,000-mile grand tour (TIME, Nov. 16); the President will invite Bourguiba aboard the cruiser Des Moines for an afternoon's conversation in the Bay of Tunis, will visit Franco on an overnight stop in Madrid while flying home from Paris...
...Look. While Ike travels, Secretary of State Christian Herter will wrap up U.S. position-papers in advance of the Western summit, but will join the presidential party aboard the cruiser. As his top diplomatic adviser Ike will take to Asia the State Department's retiring Troubleshooter Bob Murphy, who will delay his retirement (and starting his new jobs as a director of Corning Glass Works and president of Corning Glass Works International) to make the trip. New look on the diplomatic team: Daughter-in-Law Barbara Eisenhower, who will accompany Ike's aide and son, Major John...