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...last week some 50 retired admirals and Marine Corps generals, flying in from Remember's opening ceremonies in Annapolis, paraded up lower Broadway, felt salty planks under foot again aboard a dozen Atlantic Fleet vessels tied up at local piers. Senior officer present: Fleet Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, 74, now leading a land battle to save the fabled carrier Enterprise from the scrap heap. Among the other World War II brass on hand: Admiral Richard L ("Close-In") Conolly, 65, a past master at firing his 16-inchers into the whites of their eyes on enemy-held beaches...
Died. Herbert Halsey Maass, 79, one of the original trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J. (founded 1930) and a board chairman since 1942; after long illness; in Manhattan. Attorney and corporation executive (Pershing Square Building Corp., Consolidated Cigar Corp.), Maass was instrumental in bringing the late Albert Einstein onto the faculty in 1933, presided over the October 1954 meeting which unanimously re-elected Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer as the institute's director after he had been declared a security risk...
...read in TIME, March 18, that Admiral Halsey and the former men of the U.S.S. Enterprise are trying to raise $350,000 for the purpose of buying her as a national relic. The idea of this great American ship being scrapped after her glorious war service brings to my mind the almost identical case of the U.S.S Constitution. The generosity of the American people helped save "Old Ironsides" and I am sure that we can count on them to save the "Big E" now. Please forward my small contribution to Admiral Halsey for her salvation. FRANK A. CUTTITA Loudonville...
Dusting off his old five-star uniform, Fleet Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, 74, momentarily dropped his affairs in his Manhattan offices, hopped over to Bayonne, N.J. to have his picture taken with an old friend, the aircraft carrier Enterprise, thereby giving many a veteran a disconcerting sensation of being jerked 15 years backward in time. The Navy has marked the Big E for the scrap heap, and Old Sailor Halsey, along with some 1,400 former men of the Big E, was trying to raise $350,000 to buy the carrier and convert it into a national relic...
Fortnight ago, the dogged utility district tasted victory: the first Grant County bond issue was sold by a nationwide investment banking syndicate headed by Halsey, Stuart & Co. The transaction marked one of the biggest private investments ever made in hydroelectric power. Grant County's financing plan also was unusual: to help shoulder the costs, twelve public and private utility companies in three states have signed 50-year contracts for 63½% of Priest Rapids power output, guaranteed repayment of the debt...