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...high time for a reassessment of the nation's forces, Forrest Sherman argued, and other J.C.S. members agreed, although none could argue it with the eloquence of Navyman Sherman. Russia was spending four times as much of its income as the U.S. on armaments, already had the world's largest army and air force, was hard at work building a navy...
Intent Man. At 53, Forrest Sherman is the youngest man (and first career airman) to be Chief of Naval Operations. A stocky man (5 ft. 9 in., 168 Ibs.) with a rolling, pigeon-toed gait, he has none of the traditional sea dog's look of shaggy-browed sternness. His smile is quick, friendly but curiously remote. His eyes appraise impersonally without open -approval or rancor, like the eyes of an airman inspecting an engine. Always, he keeps an air of detachment...
...Right from the beginning," said his Annapolis roommate, Merton ("Sticks") Wade, "he knew precisely what he wanted. He wanted to get to the top." And right from the beginning, as a boy, Forrest Sherman had wanted to go to sea. Before he could read, he was fascinated by woodcuts of sailing ships in an old history book. The high-school class prophet predicted confidently that he would be an admiral. His singleminded intentness was the kind that wins admiration, but seldom popularity. "You can't get good marks if you're popular," he once told his sister...
...second of a family of six sons-and a daughter, Forrest Percival Sherman was born to the headmaster of a small school in Reeds Ferry, N.H. (pop. 265) and to a mother whose forebears were John and Priscilla Alden. Shermans had fought with the colonists against the Dutch, gone with Benedict Arnold to Quebec...
...Forrest grew up in a big, comfortable Victorian house in Melrose, outside Boston. He built model ships, and with his pals re-enacted the charge of San Juan Hill in the wood behind the house, using cordwood for cannon...