Word: halseyisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those who suspected he was in the Navy only for effect soon revised their opinion. He was the ideal naval administrator-big, neat, quiet, orderly and a bear for work. Halsey made him his flag secretary-chief administrative officer of headquarters ashore, and an assistant chief of staff at sea-and began calling him Harold...
...break. He requested combat duty and was sent to famed Admiral Bill Halsey's staff-a piece of luck such as few fresh-water reserve officers enjoyed. But after that he made his own way. His first interview with the Admiral was one of the shortest in naval history. Growled Halsey: "Are you down here to work?" Said Stassen: "Yes, sir." That...
...spent the afternoon and one more day in Virginia, enjoying the holiday from Washington's steamy heat, strolling over the wooded, 210-acre estate of Stanley Woodward, State Department protocol chief, going to a cocktail party given for the press by Admiral William F. Halsey. Then, at the wheel of an open convertible, he drove back to Washington at a steady 50-mile clip (several times hitting 65 on the straightaway). At Memorial Bridge a Secret Serviceman took over and Harry Truman rode soberly on to the White House, to pick up his cudgels...
From retirement, Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey had his say about the responsibility for the Pearl Harbor disaster. "In all my experience," he wrote in the Satevepost, "I have never known a Commander in Chief of any United States Fleet who worked harder, and under more adverse circumstances. ... I know of no officer . . . who could have done more than [Admiral Husband E.] Kimmel...
Hibbs ruthlessly trimmed his text, liberally boosted his prices (up to $600 for pieces by beginners and $1,500 for old hands). He pays $2,500 for a Norman Rockwell cover, laid out $60,000 for Admiral Halsey's forthcoming memoirs. He banished prettified dog portraits and elaborately styled gag covers, made the word Post stand out on the cover, and the words Saturday-Evening seem almost whispered. (The accent is the same in the radio plugs and the Post's smart promotion ads.) The success stories changed: "Today," Hibbs says, "we'd rather talk about...