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...sailors, and I'll cast my vote for their men being equal to the British or our own U.S. naval personnel. I've been privileged to know many British and American admirals, including such charmers as Britain's Admiral Tennant and our own beloved Admiral Halsey. Free China's Admiral G. John Ma can hold his own with any of them...
There is a provocative passage in The Folks at Home, latest book by Margaret Halsey (With Malice Toward Some). It is: ". . . The word 'communications' is misleading. 'Communication' in the dictionary sense means a two-way exchange. But who ever argues with a movie? Who talks back to TIME and LIFE? To assume that no body wants to is taking too much for granted...
During World War II, still fighting for more Navy recognition of air power, he served in Washington, planning the Navy's air operations, later won two Distinguished Service Medals as commander of fast carrier task groups in the Pacific under Admirals "Bull" Halsey and Raymond Spruance. In 1949, on duty as commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet, he led the famed "revolt of the admirals." At the congressional hearings, Radford blasted the Defense Department for sapping the Navy's offensive strength, called the 6-36 a "billion-dollar blunder." At one point, the Army chief of staff...
...Halsey, Stuart's President Harold Stuart has seldom missed a chance to take a potshot at Morgan Stanley; in fact, he was an important Government witness in the antitrust case* against 17 investment bankers (TIME, March 31). With his help, the U.S. hoped to prove that Morgan Stanley and its Wall Street colleagues long monopolized the securities business by the negotiated-bid methods which Stuart objected to. But Stuart was of little help, and Morgan Stanley steadfastly denies such charges. It points out that it has invited Stuart to join in several of its negotiated deals, only...
Last week, for the first time, the two companies joined hands to underwrite a securities issue. Halsey, Stuart & Co. agreed to join a group of more than 200 underwriters, headed by Morgan Stanley, to sell $200 million of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. bonds next month. It is the biggest public underwriting of industrial corporate securities in history-and, true to Morgan Stanley tradition, is a negotiated deal. Even so, Halsey, Stuart insisted that no compromise of principle was involved. Said Advertising Manager Carl A. Anderson: "We still believe certain things and they believe other things. [But] we certainly...