Word: bostwick
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...surprise came when President Eisenhower named Rear Admiral Arleigh Albert Burke (see box) as Chief of Naval Operations to succeed Admiral Robert Bostwick Carney, 60, who will retire Aug. 16. Burke, 53, will be the second youngest C.N.O. (Forrest Sherman was nine months younger) in U.S. history. He is outranked (until he gets his four stars) by seven full admirals, 21 vice admirals and 64 rear admirals...
That was the way a vast majority of the people's representatives on Capitol Hill wanted it to be. But not everyone was content to leave it that way. Among those who were not was Admiral Robert B. (for Bostwick) Carney, eager Chief of Naval Operations. Apparently aiming to prepare the public, Admiral Carney gave reporters his off-the-record estimate that the Chinese Communists would probably begin an attack on the offshore islands by the end of April...
...said to think that NATO needs Gruenther more than it needs General Matthew Ridgway . . . Leading candidate: Ridgway. Probable choice [for Air Force Chief of Staff] : General Nathan Farragut Twining . . . Admiral William Morrow Fechteler . . . will probably be replaced as Chief of Naval Operations. Front runner for the job: Admiral Robert Bostwick Carney...
ADMIRAL ROBERT BOSTWICK CARNEY, 58, Commander in Chief, Allied Forces, Southern Europe...
Navy. Although his term doesn't expire until 1955, Admiral William Morrow Fechteler, 57. a sea dog with a somewhat tenuous hold on world politics and the art of interservice maneuvers, will probably be replaced as Chief of Naval Operations. Front runner for the job: Admiral Robert Bostwick ("Mick") Carney, 58, a Navy air enthusiast who has shaped up a first-rate land & sea fighting force as NATO commander for Southern Europe...