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...admiral was proud of his week, but tired. In three days in Spain, Forrest Sherman had set in motion what he had long urged: a deal for the use of Spain's bases in the defense of Europe (see INTERNATIONAL). Then he was off on a rapid swing around Europe. On Thursday he was in France, conferring with Eisenhower; on Friday he was in London. Leaving at midnight, he flew down to Naples, sleeping fitfully in his personal plane. Saturday was busy with official talks, and he took Mrs. Sherman to dinner and an opera in the open...
...Washington, Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, Chief of Naval Operations, announced that he would stop off at Madrid on his forthcoming tour of Western Europe. The British and French Foreign Offices nervously-and publicly-advised the U.S. against entering any military arrangement with Franco Spain...
...portrait of Native Son Truman), and where Gargotta lay, a few steps away. This had a quieting effect on the enthusiasm of present and prospective members of the club. Last week Binaggio's successor, Boss Henry McKissick, took down the pictures of Harry S. Truman and Missouri Governor Forrest Smith, and moved out. He announced that the club was looking for more suitable quarters...
Matthews likes to say that his outstanding job for the Navy was to get Admiral Forrest Sherman to run it. He also managed to weather some roaring storms and rough sailing. He enraged his sea dogs by recommending the firing of Admiral Louis E. Denfeld as Chief of Naval Operations during the unification battle, but gradually won them over. He made a lot of people mad, including Harry Truman, by calling for a preventive war against Russia in a Boston speech last August, but that blew over too. Thereafter, SecNav was often seen but rarely heard from...
Long before Pentagon days, Lieut. Colonel George Marshall so impressed General John Pershing. The Navy's Forrest Sherman was taken under the wing of Admiral Chester Nimitz; Lauris Norstad, now top airman in Europe, was tapped by General Hap Arnold. Lieut. General Al Gruenther, generally regarded as the most impressive briefing officer the Pentagon has produced, was once a comer himself, is now Eisenhower's chief of staff at SHAPE. Recently, Gruenther called for the Army's brightest comer, Brigadier General Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Schuyler, 50, to serve as his plans officer. He also got the loan...