When a general—or an admiral—gets up to make a speech, you never can tell what he may say. To 2,000 diners at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, welcoming the Admiral back home last week, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz lapsed into doggerel. The verses, he explained, about a sailor named Patsy McCoy, had been found by a Navy censor, going through the mail:
Me and Halsey and Nimitz
Have sure got the Japs on the run
We're driving them wacky
In old Nagasaki. . . .
Me and Halsey and Nimitz
Are havin' a wonderful time.
What we ain't uprootin'
By bombin' and shootin'
Would fit on the face of a...