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From the flower-banked stage a minister intoned the words of the Episcopal burial service: "I am the resurrection and the life . . . Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" An honor guard of Marine riflemen fired three sharp volleys...
The Change. It would be hard to imagine a greater contrast between two men. When big, bald Louis Johnson two months ago stepped into James Forrestal's place, control of the nation's second biggest office passed from a wiry, introverted, unpolitical public servant to a 202 lb...
James Forrestal, perhaps too sensitive to the traditions and loyalties of the three armed services, had tried to win unity by conciliation and persuasion. In this he had largely failed. Louis Johnson had moved in like a combine advancing on a field of summer wheat. He set out "to crack...
He became-perhaps inevitably-the target of widespread and vicious attacks. His enemies were many: disgruntled officers, liberals, professional politicians (who resented his refusal to take part in the Truman campaign), the Communists, gossip columnists. Both Drew Pearson and Walter Winchell (who raged during the Palestine dispute because Forrestal advocated...
Died. James Vincent Forrestal, 57, onetime Secretary of the Navy (1944-47) and the nation's first Secretary of Defense (1947-49); by jumping from a 16th-floor window of the Bethesda, Md. Naval Hospital (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).