Word: halseyisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cost of Tarawa inevitable? Was it necessary to conquer Iwo?), he is determinedly fair. As a historian, his concern is more with events themselves than with the exploits of individual heroes. But he has included his estimates of the men who bossed the top Pacific commands: Nimitz, Spruance, Mitscher, Halsey. He has also included some of the best of the old Pacific war sagas. One of them: 18 Lightnings racing out from Guadalcanal's Henderson Field to bushwhack Admiral Yamamoto in the air over Jap-held Bougainville...
...once called Admiral William Halsey "Alderman Halsey," referred to Charles de Gaulle as "Dee Gowl," introduced the U.S. protocol expert, Stanley Woodward, as "chief of portico," lauded a fellow politician for being "a member of no thinking group...
Married. Myrna Loy, 40, redheaded, pretty but jug-eared "perfect screen wife"; and Commodore (on terminal leave) Gene Markey, 50, cinema scenarist and producer, wartime member of Admiral William F. Halsey's staff; both for the third time; on Terminal Island, Calif. At ceremony's end, Gene pecked Myrna's cheek, she pecked Best Man Halsey's. Said the Markeys: "This time it will stick." Her former husbands: Producer Arthur Hornblow Jr., Advertising Executive John D. Hertz Jr. His former wives: Cinemactresses Joan Bennett, Hedy Lamarr...
Admiral William F. Halsey, whose foot and mouth seem to have a dreadful affinity, appeared to be stuck for life with his equestrian boast (that he would ride the Emperor's white horse down the streets of Tokyo): he got a white wooden mount in Manhattan from members of the Military Order of the World Wars. Day before, Gossipist Leonard Lyons quoted his latest blurt, apropos the atomic bomb-that he would have preferred to lick Japan without it, conceded that it "did one good thing, though. It meant 100,000 dead Japs we'll never have...
...flag officers still on active duty, the Navy's letter simply asked (for guidance in future planning) if the admiral wanted to retire-please reply. Of those who had replied by last week, only 16 said they wanted to get out. Among them were Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey (see above); 62-year-old Admiral Royal E. Ingersoll, commander of the Atlantic Fleet throughout most of the war; hardboiled Admiral Emory S. Land, for seven years head of the Maritime Commission...