Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Vaughan (marked for the President's attention), Attorney General Tom Clark, Secretary of State James Brynes; on Dec. 7: Navy Secretary (later Defense Secretary) James Forrestal, Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden; on Feb. 20, 1946: the President's Chief of Staff, Fleet Admiral William Leahy; on Feb. 26: War Department G-2 (later Chief of Air Staff) Lieut. General Hoyt Vandenberg; on March 5: Treasury Secretary (later U.S. Chief Justice) Fred Vinson; on March 15: the chief State Department security officer. Fred Lyon. Brownell also produced a note from the FBI, which accompanied Tom Clark...
After their official Navy sedan conked out, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Robert B. Carney and the Pacific Fleet's commanding Admiral Felix B. Stump, on their way to a reception for Carney at Pearl Harbor, proceeded in a style to which they are unaccustomed. Hitchhiker Carney arrived in a small British sports car, Stump in a half-ton pickup truck...
...Watts. Lillian Gish garnered excited reviews. Hers is indeed a good performance-though of a character that remains uninteresting. As the daughter-in-law, Jo Van Fleet is often vividly and hatefully alive. Both actresses deserve a better play...
...weekly Recorder into a daily, the first new British daily since the London Daily Worker was started 23 years ago. For his new paper, Brittain has a staff of 70, and to finance his venture, he has close to half a million dollars from a stock issue and notes. (Fleet Streeters gossiped that Beaverbrook himself had invested in the paper, but both the Beaver's office and Brittain denied it.) Editor Brittain hopes to find a "new public" of 500,000 readers who are "the product of our largely extended universities [and] are repelled by the vulgarity which admittedly...
...situation is far worse. "All of Stimson's On Active Service in Peace and War, except direct quotations, was written by McGeorge Bundy; and part of Hull's lengthy Memoirs was written by Andrew Berding and various State Department experts . . . Walter Muir Whitehall's Fleet Admiral King: A Naval Record . . . is a fusion of two firsthand accounts . . . and in the book's World War II narrative, it is sometime? difficult to tell what was actually seen by the commander in chief of the fleet and what was merely glimpsed by Whitehill from the Admiral...