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Five men were on deck for Forrest Sherman's job as Chief of Naval Operations. Most conspicuous among them-and the Navy's popular choice-was Admiral Arthur W. Radford, boss of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Brilliant, bluntly outspoken, Airman Radford was Airman Sherman's own choice to succeed him two years hence. But popular "Raddy" Radford had led the Navy's revolt against unification in 1949, was anathema to the Air Force, whose giant B-36 bomber he scornfully labeled a "billion-dollar blunder," and had been called a "fancy Dan" by Omar Bradley...
...Ystad harbor, vacationers milled around the docked minesweeper, watched the smiling faces of the seamen on deck and (peeking through the mess porthole) the sour faces of the officers. Swedish authorities handed the ship back to the Polish captain, who headed home. Of the 16 mutineers, four at the last minute decided to go back to Communist Poland, fearing reprisals against their...
...miles upriver, some 75 miles from Nanking, the Communists opened up with artillery, fired twelve rounds and scored twelve misses. Fifty minutes later, ignoring Union Jacks unfurled over the side, another and more accurate shore battery scored 53 hits on the Amethyst. Dead and wounded lay scattered about her deck. The ship's doctor was killed, the skipper was wounded and soon died, and most of the guns were put out of action. The Communists answered the Amethyst's white flag of truce with machine-gun fire. The smashed frigate ran aground on a mud-bank, remained trapped...
When bustling Bill Veeck (rhymes with deck) barged into Cleveland in 1946 he smilingly confessed: "I'm a publicity hound." He lured the crowds to Municipal Stadium with boogie-woogie bands, fireworks, clowns, orchids for the ladies and baby sitters for the children. Before he sold out at a reputed profit of $600,000 in 1949, his Cleveland Indians had broken attendance records and won their second pennant in 48 years. Last week Veeck popped back into the major-league picture again: he took over the doddering, anemic St. Louis Browns...
...anybody fully realized what had happened, Siam's Premier, waving a cordial farewell to his erstwhile guests, was whisked away upriver in a navy landing craft. A fusillade of gunfire splattered over the heads of the crowd, and the elegantly garbed guests on the dredge dived for the deck like well-trained rangers...