Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comic grandeur, with Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz's appearance in it all too brief. But Stiggins, the red-nosed parson, and Jingle and Mrs. Leo Hunter and many others have a proper share in the fun, and Mr. Young has contrived a sort of affectionate final roundup in the Fleet Prison. There is an attractive cast, and John Burrell's direction is neither too muscular nor too quaint. However debatable a change in terms of the book, Mr. Pickwick constitutes a rather refreshing change in terms of Broadway...
...When the fleet reached open waters, it formed quickly into battle array. British ships went one way, U.S. ships the other, until the two had formed into separate task forces like two huge targets on the water, the carriers in the bull's-eyes of each. Side by side the two forces steamed along, code flags dipping and bobbing, signal lights blinking. One problem of the exercise was to develop a "joint language of command" understandable by both tars and bluejackets. On Mainbrace, U.S. signalmen no longer reported signal pennants "two-blocked" when they are hauled...
...first clash with the "enemy" (ten submarines and one cruiser) brought on an intra-fleet rhubarb. A Russian sub (H.M.S. Taciturn) got through the destroyer screen and promptly claimed hits on four carriers, but the umpires (on the surface ships) ruled her sunk. Such differences will be resolved when the two-week exercise is finished and the commanders gather in Oslo for a review. Meanwhile, "sunken" carriers and subs fight...
...operation continues, carrier planes will strike at Bodo in northern Norway to drive the enemy back. Then the fleet will turn south to hit the aggressors near the Kiel Canal, while U.S. marines establish a beachhead in Denmark. By the time the two-week exercise is done, the imaginary enemy will inevitably have been defeated. The real one will have had, at least, a good show of strength...
Died. Admiral Jonas Howard Ingram, 65, Medal of Honor winner (at Veracruz in 1914), wartime commander in chief of the Atlantic Fleet, onetime star athlete at Annapolis and later (1914-17) the Naval Academy's football coach; of a heart attack; in San Diego. In 1906, as the Navy's fullback, he caught a forward pass, scored Navy's first victory over Army in six years. During World War II he was responsible for the nation's sea lanes from the Arctic to the Falkland Islands, once said of his job: "I had little butter...