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...were that he was a person undesirable as a school teacher; that he had violated the teachers' oath he took on March 31, 1935; and that he had engaged in conduct unbecoming a school teacher by failing, without justification, to cooperate as required by law with a duly constituted sub-committee of Congress...
...problem of Fulbright fellowships first came prominently to McCarthy's attention in June of 1953 when Professor Napthali Lewis of Brooklyn College and his wife both appeared as witnesses before a New York session of the Senate Permanent Investigating sub-committee, of which McCarthy was then the sole member. Several months before, Lewis, a professor of Classical Languages at Brooklyn College, had been awarded a Fulbright grant for study in Italy during the academic year...
...Wildcats droned over the Atlantic, 100 miles off Cap Blanc, on search mission. At almost the same moment, each pilot spotted what he was looking for: the dark, sharklike outline of a German U-boat, slipping along just under the waves. Simultaneously, the two planes flashed the warning, "Sighted sub," back to their flattop, the Guadalcanal, known to her crew as the Can Do. As the carrier's five destroyer escorts closed in and depth charges spumed up, the submarine jammed her diving planes into the down position...
Dumplings & Geysers. When Gallery's sub-destroying team attacked the U-5O5, most of the Nazi crew was eating Sunday dinner. The depth charges damaged the sub's external ballast tanks and turned her over on her side, tossing officers and men to the decks in a tumble of crockery and dumplings. The captain ordered preparations for scuttling. Then he surfaced the U-5O5 to let the crew escape...
After the war the battered sub was moved to Portsmouth Navy Yard to be reduced to scrap, but the Korean war postponed that fate. Last year a group of citizens began a campaign to bring the U-boat to Chicago, Dan Gallery's home town. The Navy was agreeable, and on June 26 Junior was welcomed to Chicago. This week, if weather and Lake Michigan permit, Junior will be hauled ashore in a momentous engineering operation and lugged across South Lake Shore Drive (traffic will be halted for twelve hours) to her final berth at the museum...