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Died. Vice Admiral Russell Willson (ret.), 64, tall, elegant wartime deputy (1942-43) to COMINCH Ernie King and military adviser to the U.S. delegations at Dumbarton Oaks and San Francisco; of a coronary thrombosis; in Bethesda, Md. Admiral Willson organized the Navy's communications during World War I, retired as adviser to the Joint Chiefs of Staff after World War II to become associate editor of World Report...
...dress whites (see cut), which some sour old regulars thought would look fine on soda jerks. Best-looking of the lot were the dress blues with battle jacket and overseas cap-although they were still not up to the crisp splendor of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, wartime COMINCH and Chief of Naval Operations, who-looking like an embossed pillar of naval majesty surmounted by scrambled eggs-was named last week by Apparel Arts as the best-dressed sailor...
...real scramble for power will come in the Navy. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, chief of the Pacific Fleet, is still four years short of retirement age, wants the COMINCH job. The Fifth Fleet's quiet, hard-working Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance, 59, is also a leading candidate. Navy "radicals" (i.e., proponents of a break from the Navy's tradition of ancient admirals) would like to lop off the top 10% of the service's greening brass, lower the retirement age, put in a young admiral as boss. Their favorite, No. 175 on the list of admirals: lean...
...COMINCH" corridor, on the second "deck" forward of the Navy Building in Washington, leads to the austere office of the fleet Commander in Chief, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. Down this formidable channel, one day recently, steamed Vice-Admiral Aubrey Fitch. He bore with him a topside-shaking plan...
...promotion list, long awaited by the Navy (TIME, Jan. 22, et seg.), surprised no one. Thirty-five line officers' names were on it. Three wingless vice admirals got a fourth star: grizzled 60-year-old Richard S. Edwards, King's deputy COMINCH; shy, barrel-chested Henry K. Hewitt, 58, "Nimitz of the Mediterranean"; suave, salty Thomas C. Kinkaid, 57, boss of the Seventh Fleet and member of MacArthur's famous "K-team" (Kinkaid, Krueger and Kenney). Five rear admirals got three stars-but none of the eight was a naval aviator, and none was under 53. Only...