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Speculation: 1) the cruisers were going to the Korean war; 2) they were being transferred to the Black Sea; 3) they were going to Abadan, Iran, to outglare the British cruiser there. Good guess: they were on a shakedown cruise to Murmansk...
...special" which brought Hearst Favorite Marion Davies back into the headlines. The 800 words written by the Los Angeles Examiner's society columnist, "Cholly Angeleno," recounted in detail how "the beautiful film star" (now 51) was appointed "honorary commanding officer of the U.S.S. Manchester" by the cruiser's officers, "the first time anyone has ever been made honorary commanding officer in the Navy." The award was made at a "gala soiréee" in "Miss Davies' spacious home" in Beverly Hills. On the guest list was William Randolph Hearst Sr., himself. But at an ailing...
Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy, 56, Commander, Naval Forces in the Far East, got his first taste of Pacific warfare as operations officer of the cruiser Indianapolis during the Battle of Bougainville. Later, from his battle post as commander of the cruiser Louisville, he was pulled back to Washington to head the Navy's important Pacific Plans Division, given sea duty once more as commander of Cruiser Division 6 during the assault on Saipan, the landings at Guam, Peleliu, Leyte and Lingayen Gulf. A blue-water man (Annapolis, class of 1916), he is a crack ordnance expert, a good...
Rear Admiral Arleigh Albert ("31-Knot") Burke, 49, Commander, U.S. Cruiser Division 5, earned his nickname early in the Pacific war as commander of the 23rd ("Little Beaver") Destroyer Squadron. His invariable reply to battle movement orders: "Am proceeding at 31 knots." Later promoted to captain and chief of staff to Admiral Marc Mitscher, of famed Task Force 58. After the war, wisecracking, hard-hitting Annapolis-man (1923) Burke became a leader in the Navy's fight against unification. His high service record earned him forgiveness and promotion after the dust settled. He is married, has no children...
Outwardly, Lucy Freeman seemed to have almost everything a girl could ask. Daughter of a prosperous New York City lawyer, she had grown up in a fine Westchester house near Long Island Sound, where she helped run her father's cabin cruiser. She went to good schools, got good marks, did well in sports, had plenty of dates."She wanted to be a journalist, and soon made the staff of the Times. At 29, she was still unmarried but that, she rationalized, was because her standards were especially high...