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"So What, Old Top?" The amazing thing is that this "formidable old crustacean," as John Gunther dubbed him, survived the war in Washington. King started by disliking General George Marshall, his opposite number in the Army, though he later found much to admire in him. He bucked Secretary Frank Knox...
In a speech to the Chattanooga Bar Association, Manhattan's Federal Judge Harold R. Medina recalled some of the pressure he endured during the 1949 trial of the eleven U.S. Communist leaders in Manhattan. It began, said the judge, about a month after Defense Secretary James Forrestal jumped to...
After twelve weeks of training, Peter Forrestal, 21, son of the late Secretary of Defense, was sworn in as an ensign at the United States Naval Station, Long Beach, Calif.
If Westinghouse's dry-land development of the atomic engine is successful, the seagoing version probably will be fitted into a flush-deck carrier of the new 60,000-ton Forrestal class.
As Pearson reported the fight, he was just plunking an after-luncheon mint into his mouth when Clark bounded over to him. Said Pearson: "It looked as if he'd been hiding, lying in wait for me. He said, 'Hey you, I want to talk to you.'...