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Some of President Truman's thoughts ran deep last week. He sat in the glaring Arlington Memorial Amphitheater on a broiling (temperature: 94°) Washington afternoon for the funeral of his chief of naval operations, Forrest Sherman. Though other civilians sat with their heads bared, the President at first kept his hat on. So did Old Soldier George Marshall, sitting nearby-perhaps unconsciously following the custom of men in uniform. After ten minutes, the President suddenly removed his hat and so did Secretary Marshall. Later, Harry Truman confided to some of the honorary pallbearers that he would like...
...meters, Hawaii's little Ford Konno, 18 (5 ft. 6½-in., 143 Ibs.), bested Australia's John Marshall by a full pool length (50 meters). Time: 18:46.3. ¶ Calumet Farm added another to its dazzling array of racing wins. Last week in the $75,275 Arlington Futurity, a Calumet colt, undefeated Hill Gail, won by better than a length over a field of 18 of the nation's promising two-year-olds. ¶ From Cape Gris-Nez, France, the traditional take-off for English Channel swimmers, eight men (six of them Egyptians) and a British...
Elizabeth Arden Graham (May 6, 1946), owner of Kentucky Derby favorites Knockdown and Lord Boswell, lost her Arlington Park (Ill.) stable in the worst fire of horse-racing history - on the same day that TIME'S story on her hit the newsstands. Two days later her Derby entries finished out of the money...
...Pentagon, he becomes an anonymous cog in, say, the Reserve Components Branch of the Organization & Training Division in the office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations. He exchanges his comfortable rent-free house in Germany for a six-room row house in Arlington County which he has to buy for $23,000 because no houses are available for rent. His $632-a-month salary barely covers his expenses (some captains have to drive taxicabs at night to make ends meet). In the Pentagon he finds that a lieutenant colonel rates lower than one of his own first lieutenants...
ADELAIDE A. DEL FRATE Arlington, Mass...