Word: ensigns
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...exquisite at it. The Harvard-educated Lemmon returned from his stint as a Navy ensign in WWII and told his father he was trying acting full-time. His father loaned him $300 and Lemmon (his real name, though Columbia studio boss Harry Cohn tried to make him change it for his first Hollywood role, the lead opposite Judy Holliday in the musical comedy "It Should Happen...
...trophy, named in honor of Ensign Malcolm Gardener Main, has been given to the winner of the men's Harvard-Yale-Princeton race every year since 1922. Princeton dropped from competition in the event two years ago, leaving Harvard and Yale to compete for the trophy and a year's worth of bragging rights...
...daughter of a Los Angeles oilman, she signed on for Navy life at an early age. After two unsuccessful attempts at eloping--"The car broke down the first time, and I got cold feet the other"--the debutante succeeded in stealing away to Tijuana to marry a young Navy ensign who had been barred from her house for the previous year. Just 19, she brought her college textbooks on her honeymoon. The San Francisco Examiner ran a headline at the time that read SOCIETY COED ELOPES WITH NAVY OFFICER: ROBERTA WRIGHT DEFIES FAMILY. For his part, her husband Jack McCain...