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Chicago's frumious Mayor Ed Kelly, who once introduced the Navy's famed "Bull" Halsey as "Alderman Halsey" had another one of those weeks. Highlights...
Ernest Hemingway became a pin-up boy in earnest: popular-magazine illustrators Frederic Varady, Al Buell and Mortimer Wilson decided that the taurine author's head was one of the six "most startling and exciting heads in the world . . . faunlike." The other pre-eminent polls: Admiral William F. Halsey, British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, U.A.W. Leader Walter Reuther, Cinemactor Tyrone Power, G-Man J. Edgar Hoover...
...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...