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...Forrest Ray Colson was a thin, pallid, blond boy. His hands were soft and white, and he wore gloves whenever possible. But for all this he wanted to be a "big hero" and have lots of girls. At 16 he left high school in Hollywood and joined the Marine Corps. He served six unrewarding years, from 1941 to 1947. He saw no action, won no medals...
Robert L. Fischelis '49, graduate secretary of the Center, and Forrest L. Gould '52, chairman of Dudley's House Committee, were praised by both speakers for their work on behalf of the commuters...
...Bars. But he was wide awake and watchful the following day when he inspected the tragic destruction in the Armourdale, Argentine and Central Industrial districts of Kansas City, Kans. still sodden and stinking from the silt and wreckage of July's flood. Later, with Missouri's Governor Forrest Smith, he talked over ways & means of providing more federal aid for thousands of homeless and impoverished flood victims. Then, before the Independence whisked him back to Washington, he was off to the dedication of a new armory in Kansas City, where he dropped a fascinating footnote to the Truman...
...Final Go-Ahead. From M.I.T., Rickover's students went to an AEC testing station at Arco, Idaho, to study the new engine. Then, a few days before the Korean war broke out last year, Rickover got a final go-ahead from Admiral Forrest Sherman and the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
Five men were on deck for Forrest Sherman's job as Chief of Naval Operations. Most conspicuous among them-and the Navy's popular choice-was Admiral Arthur W. Radford, boss of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Brilliant, bluntly outspoken, Airman Radford was Airman Sherman's own choice to succeed him two years hence. But popular "Raddy" Radford had led the Navy's revolt against unification in 1949, was anathema to the Air Force, whose giant B-36 bomber he scornfully labeled a "billion-dollar blunder," and had been called a "fancy Dan" by Omar Bradley...