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Some of President Truman's thoughts ran deep last week. He sat in the glaring Arlington Memorial Amphitheater on a broiling (temperature: 94°) Washington afternoon for the funeral of his chief of naval operations, Forrest Sherman. Though other civilians sat with their heads bared, the President at first kept his hat on. So did Old Soldier George Marshall, sitting nearby-perhaps unconsciously following the custom of men in uniform. After ten minutes, the President suddenly removed his hat and so did Secretary Marshall. Later, Harry Truman confided to some of the honorary pallbearers that he would like...
...commander of the Mediterranean fleet for two years before he became CNO, who first convinced the other members of the J.C.S. (who had never thought much about it), then convinced Dean Acheson's State Department, that Spain is an essential element of Europe's defense system. For Forrest Sherman, last week's negotiation was a personal triumph...
Sherman, son of a New Hampshire schoolmaster, came from a family of fighters; the Shermans, tracing their descent back to John and Priscilla Alden, fought with the colonists against the Dutch, went with Benedict Arnold to Quebec. A pleasant, neat man with an air of cool detachment, Forrest Sherman lacked the flamboyant quality that makes for a great leader of men. But he was a great planner, a great negotiator "You can't get good marks if you're popular," he once told his sister. He had few close friends, but his admirers were legion...
...Admiral Forrest Sherman, who was to die a few days later (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), talked with Franco in Madrid and reached a preliminary agreement that should lead to U.S. air and naval bases in Spain in return for U.S. economic...
Died. Admiral Forrest Percival Sherman, 54, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations; of a heart attack; in Naples, Italy (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...