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The Solemn Record. Behind the Unknown Soldier and his solitary guard lay the gently rolling countryside of northern Virginia and the 408 carefully tended acres of Arlington National Cemetery. In the cemetery lie the remains of 87,000, most of them military men and women, and on the headstones of...
*No kin to the late Defense Secretary James Forrestal.
An Entry. Johnson's shot at Mac-Arthur was based mostly on a Feb. 28, 1945 (three weeks after Yalta) entry in the diary of Navy Secretary James Forrestal. Wrote Forrestal, after a talk with MacArthur: "He felt that we should secure the commitment of the Russians to active...
Last week at Newport News, Va., Mrs. James Forrestal, widow of the first Secretary of Defense, christened the supercarrier, named in her husband's honor. The dreamboat, wide enough to have the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth placed side by side on her flight deck, moved 35 feet in...
¶Major General Charles T. (for Trueman) Lanham, 52, famed as the "prototype" for Ernest Hemingway's Montgomery*-gulping Colonel Richard Cantwell of Across the River and Into the Trees, was named president of Market Relations Network, Inc., Manhattan publicity firm. A West Pointer, "Buck" Lanham was given command...