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Unlike some admirals, he had never gone to Pensacola in middle age to take a course in aviation which would qualify him to wear wings. But he listened attentively while his flying officers-"Bull" Halsey, Forrest ("Fuzz") Sherman, Frederick ("Ted") Sherman, Aubrey W. ("Jake") Fitch-argued the case of the carrier-cruiser task force. Nimitz was convinced. He sent Halsey out on the hit-run raids which buoyed the fleet's morale, and the nation's, early...
...Congressional battle royal over Henry Wallace almost drowned out the scuffle over the appointment of long, lanky Aubrey Williams as Rural Electrification Administrator. But last week the scuffle was still going on: it had shifted from politics to religion. In a telegram to Tennessee's Senator McKellar (a Presbyterian), the Rev. Joseph Broady (a Presbyterian) of Findlay, Ohio charged that Williams was "utterly unworthy for any Government position" because he had "renounced the Divinity of Christ." (This apparently referred to the fact that after being helped through college by the Presbyterian Church, Williams was not ordained a minister, instead...
Having balanced up the "conservative" State Department team by his appointment of Henry Wallace as Commerce Secretary (TIME, Jan. 29), he now yanked Leftist Aubrey Williams, onetime NYAdministrator, out of obscurity and nominated him as head of the Rural Electrification Administration. In the extraordinary outcry over the Wallace appointment (see below), the Williams nomination was almost forgotten. But it had its significance in pointing the way in which Franklin Roosevelt was thinking about postwar domestic issues...
Advice to Corporals. Husky, long-chinned Major General Andrew Bruce had pulled his 77th (Statue of Liberty) Division back from the lines to the beaches of Leyte Gulf. On the grey sands, Krueger reviewed the force-including his son-in-law. Colonel Aubrey D. Smith, commanding the 306th Regiment. Said Father-in-Law Krueger: "I want every corporal to realize that he commands an army just as I do, except that mine is a bigger army." Then the men marched up the ramps of waiting LCIs...
Every evening he pushed aside his ledgers and fled to the bars of west London-the Cock, the Crown, the Cheshire Cheese, the Café Royal-where he found his friends Max Beerbohm, Aubrey Beardsley, Yeats, Symons and sometimes his French idol, Poet Paul Verlaine. At the first pub he would order absinthe, then quickly jot down the verses that had swum in his head during the day. That done, he would hurry on to a small, cheap Soho restaurant called the Poland, where he conducted one of the strangest, most fruitless courtships in literary history...