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Said the Navy's personnel chief, Vice Admiral Louis Denfeld: "I question that 'McVay will ever again get a command of great responsibility ... or ever become an admiral...
...Admiral DeWitt C. ("Duke") Ramsey, 57, longtime naval aviator who is Vice Chief of Naval Operations. Under him are six deputy chiefs, all vice admirals: Forrest P. ("Fuzz") Sherman, 49 (operations); Richard L. ("Close-In") Conolly, 53 (administration); W. H. P. ("Spike") Blandy, 55 (special weapons); Louis E. Denfeld, 54 (personnel); Arthur W. Radford, 49 (air); William S. Farber, 60 (logistics), the only holdover...
...partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co., now a naval reservist and a bitter anti-regular; to exuberant Reserve Captain Luis de Florez, onetime consulting engineer to several oil companies, who is responsible for most of the Navy's special training devices; to younger officers like Vice Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, head of the Bureau of Personnel; to "Navy radicals" like Radford and Mitscher; to the best of the surface ship men, like Rear Admiral W. H. P. ("Spike") Blandy, onetime chief, Bureau of Ordnance; to Eugene Duffield, ex-Wall Street Journal writer, now his special assistant...
...bring flight training to the school and make its graduates as air-wise as West Point's; sardonic Vice Admiral "Genial John" Hoover, 58, one of the Navy's crack administrators, who gets the staff job left vacant by Jack Towers; Rear Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, 54, who will be taken from command of a battleship division and given an unannounced post ashore-probably Chief of the Bureau of Personnel, one of the most worrisome posts in Washington...
...Denfeld...