Word: halsey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when Navy was being flattened by a beefy, bulldozing squad from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, the little fullback came roaring out of nowhere, slammed the V.P.I. ball carrier so hard that he rocked him over the sideline, off the field, under the bleachers. His name was William Halsey, and they called him "Bull." That was the way he went through life...
...Navy hero of the Pacific sea war, Admiral Halsey hit the Japanese as unpredictably and as hard. Two months after Pearl Harbor, he took the offensive in his flagship Enterprise, raided the Marshall Islands; two months after that, he launched Jimmy Doolittle's Army B-25s from Hornet against Tokyo. "We get away with it because we violate the traditional rules," he grinned, and the Navy loved him for his craggy jaw and bushy eyebrow's, his baseball cap, his salty determination to ride Emperor Hirohito's white horse through Tokyo...
...Hollywood sound stage, Fleet Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, 76, peered through his thick-lensed glasses, did an approving doubletake. Object of his scrutiny: Cinemactor James Cagney, 54, his natural resemblance to Halsey startlingly enhanced by makeup, playing Bull Halsey in a movie titled The Gallant Hours, which will depict the Bull's role in winning the Battle of Guadalcanal. Said Cagney: "This film is a labor of love and gratitude to a man who, when the chips were down, performed...
...blushed and retreated without a word, but he soon found out that her name was Abigail Fithian Halsey II. She worked as a mathematician at the laboratory, lived in Bethesda with four Navy WAVEs, and would be delighted to go bicycling with...
...five men he sent letters asking: "If it would be convenient, could you possibly send me a short statement on your participation in the battle? Yours very truly, Bill Frazer." Addressees: Admiral William F. Halsey, in 1944 commander of the U.S. Third Fleet; Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet and the Central Philippines Attack Force; and three defeated Japanese sea fighters-Vice Admirals Jisaburo Ozawa, Takeo Kurita and Kiyohide Shima...