Word: halseyisms
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...Blonde English Actress Barbara Steel's dark hair is nearer to her true hair color (Sidney Skolsky), or even, in the lead of Eleanor Roosevelt's column, that "We have just celebrated the Fourth of July." The Journal-American was busy informing its readers that "Brett Halsey hasn't heard a thing from his estranged wife, Luciana Paluzzi, since she sent him a terse cable informing him that she had a baby boy in Rome" (Louella Parsons), that "when enameled bathtubs and lavatories become yellow, rub with a solution of salt and turpentine to restore the whiteness...
...islands to secure the release of servicemen and civilians illegally held prisoners of the Chinese Communists." Among those who said no: General Claire Chennault, General James Van Fleet, Rear Admiral Robert Theobald, Lieut. General George Stratemeyer, Admiral Frederick Sherman, Admiral Louis E. Denfeld. Two who were noncommittal: Admiral William Halsey, General Mark Clark. Admiral Yarnell died, at 83, last year...
Suicides & Storms. Though the whole of Morison's history displays U.S. productive might and organizing skill as decisive in both oceans, this last chapter is as full as all the others of men's ordeal by storm and by battle. When Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey led his fleet into its second typhoon in six months, a court of inquiry urged that he be transferred "to other duty," and Navy Secretary Forrestal was only dissuaded from retiring the Navy's No. 1 popular hero by the argument that to do so would boost enemy morale. Battered...
...Tranquillity. Imaginative use of Japanese as well as U.S. sources doubles the depth of this incomparably best of World War II service histories. Morison's insistence that it be "unofficial" (though all royalties go to the Navy) gives him room to light the text with judgments-as of Halsey's and Kinkaid's faulty assumptions in the battle for Leyte Gulf-that at times scorch the gold braid off commanding sleeves...
...orchestra not resident in the U.S. Akeo Watanabe, 41-year-old conductor of the Japan Philharmonic, is his nation's most gifted interpreter of modern scores; for Composers Recordings, Inc. he has now conducted eight modern American works by composers ranging from Aaron Copland to Halsey Stevens, giving them deft and assured readings...