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...week's end the President appointed one of the toughest "sundowners"* of them all as CINCUS. To be field boss of all the U.S. Navy in all seas he named Admiral Ernest Joseph King, 63, egg-bald, nitroglycerine-tempered, two-fisted, acid-tongued Commander of the Atlantic Fleet (CINCLANT), onetime Aeronautics Bureau Chief. To replace King as CINCLANT he raised small Rear Admiral Royal Eason Ingersoll, 53, at present Assistant Chief of Naval Operations, an exacting, reserved veteran. The promoted admirals were "taut ship" commanders (meaning rigid disciplinarians, as opposed to "happy ship" officers). Air-power exponents were speechless...
...Year I nominate the Bald Eagle of the Steppes, Marshal Semion Timoshenko...
...Bald, knotty Premier General Hideki Tojo rose before a mass meeting in Tokyo's miniature Hibiya Park and warned the Japanese against "intoxication by initial victories...
...homey, handsome dining room at the Treasury Department, with a cheery fire on the hearth, hospitable Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. entertained guests at lunch: grey-haired Senator Walter F. George of Georgia, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and big, bald Representative Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton of North Carolina, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee. They were talking taxes...
...Bald, earnest William Christian Bullitt, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Russia, onetime Ambassador to France, has won few diplomatic triumphs but has never failed as a super-reporter. From his old friend Franklin Roosevelt he got an assignment that fitted his talents as neatly as his well-tailored suits fit his broad-shouldered frame...