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...Chief of Naval Operations for Personnel, became a four-star admiral in 1950, and then commander of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet. Is recognized as a harddriving, able, "black-shoe" (i.e., non-aviator) BuPers man. Picked as supreme commander of NATO naval forces in the Atlantic. Winston Churchill stirred such fuss against an American commander in the post that Fechteler never served...
...year, his black, limousine entered Brussels almost unnoticed, merged with the traffic of the city and drew up to the palace gates. Baudouin spent the morning reading and signing official papers, receiving dignitaries. He emerged again at noon and went back to Laeken. There was no royal display, no fuss, no court circulars, no grand balls to remind pleasure-loving Belgians that they had a royal family again. An occasional trickle of news seeped out of the palace, e.g., Baudouin had a new motorcycle...
...Secretary of the affronted nation sat on the story for ten days while he nervously checked and rechecked accounts of the incident. When the Foreign Secretary finally protested this violation of his nation's rights, the offending nation said arrogantly, through a spokesman: "There's too much fuss being made about the affair...
...stranger on the docks of Hong Kong might have wondered what all the fuss was about. It was only the little British frigate Amethyst, 1,470 tons, and looking a bit shabby at that. But as she hove into view that August day of 1949, the din of sirens, fireworks and lusty British cheers was a considered tribute. In spite of the heavy rain, a squadron of Spitfires repeatedly swooped low in salute. Only as the Amethyst neared her Royal Navy berth did it become plain that she was a shelled cripple. No sooner was she tied up than...
...orders is an old trademark of Veteran Newshen Caldwell. In 1937, while on the staff of the city's News-Herald, she went to England to cover the coronation. She passed up the ceremony to attend a Punch & Judy show ("I couldn't stand all the fuss"), filed a long coronation story to her paper the next day with a footnote confessing she had seen it all in the newsreels...