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...younger top-drawer air admirals (both aged 49) to quarterback its plays. One was lean, whip-smart Rear Admiral Arthur Radford, father of the Navy's wartime air training program and commander of a carrier task group in the Pacific War. The other was quiet, studious Rear Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, "brain" of Admiral Nimitz' Pacific Fleet staff. In Navy circles they were considered to be progressive thinkers. Assignment of men of their caliber indicated that the Navy might try a new tack. But there was no reason to believe that either Radford or Sherman, both naval aviators...
...Orders. Kawabe bowed low to stone-faced Lieut. General Richard K. Sutherland. MacArthur's chief of staff nodded, quickly led the six ranking members of the delegation to a conference with Willoughby, three other staff generals and Rear Admiral Forrest P. Sherman. For five strained hours, the victors extracted information about harbors and airfields around Tokyo, which Allied forces would need for their entry...
Died. Rear Admiral Forrest B. Royal. 52, stocky commander of amphibious op erations in this month's Brunei Bay invasion of northwest Borneo, veteran of Leyte and Luzon, onetime secretary to the Joint Chiefs of Staff; of coronary thrombosis...
...their 40,000-mile travels was tart and sensible. Overall impression : facts are going to have as hard a time as ever getting around after the war. The traveling threesome, representing the American Society of Newspaper Editors, were the New York Herald Tribune's kindly, pipe-chewing Wilbur Forrest, Columbia University's owlish, gadabout Carl Ackerman, the Atlanta Constitution's nervous, nimble Editor Ralph McGill. Outstanding findings...
Riots & Hollywood. In Russia, Forrest, Ackerman and McGill had strong toasts and heavy talks with Moscow's leading editors, who for the first time were all gathered at a dinner for foreign visitors. The U.S. visitors listened politely to an angry diatribe by Russia's cantankerous Reporter Ilya Ehrenburg (whom the editors describe drily as an "essayist" for the Government), and sat through "almost identical speeches" by the editors of Pravda and Izvestia, who insisted that only the U.S.S.R. had a truly free press. They concluded that Russian editors get their ideas of the U.S. press from such...