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...Holloway Plan was approved by Congress in August 1946, was and is criticized as a waste of taxpayers' money because many men use it to get a college education and quit the Navy after serving their minimum three years. But the Holloway Plan flourished despite the criticism on 52 college campuses coast to coast, and a new quip passed into the Navy vernacular. The quip: "Did you get your commission the hard way [i.e., Annapolis] or the Holloway...
From then on Holloway's Navy name was established-but in training and personnel rather than operational command. From 1947 to 1950 he was a successful superintendent of the Naval Academy, hiking academic standards, instituting a new leadership course for which he wrote half the textbook. The other half, on psychology, was written by a Johns Hopkins group. And after 30 uneventful months as commander of the Atlantic Fleet's Battleship-Cruiser Force, Holloway turned out yet another standout performance, as Chief of the Bureau of Naval Personnel from 1953-58, as the Navy came out of Korea...
...never had Jim Holloway played so far above his own head. For 3^ years his wife Jean, daughter of Major General Johnson Hagood, U.S.A., was incurably ill with cancer. Holloway would leave his quarters in Washington at 6:20 a.m., play a lonely nine holes of golf with his single adjustable-head golf club at the Army and Navy Country Club, put in a full day's work with not a mention of his wife's illness, then spend the evening at the hospital with her before taking a long walk home, as he put it, "to become...
...Storm Gathers. Around Admiral Holloway at his desk at BuPers, the cold war crowded in from Korea through Indo-China to the Middle East...
Desperate Hours. Since the landings, Admiral Holloway's diplomatic-military talents have been kept minute-to-minute busy, put to many a test. He gets up aboard his electronics-crammed command ship Taconic about 6 a.m., keeps on the move until past midnight, has found spare time only to write four letters to London to his second wife-last January he married Josephine Kenney, the widow of a naval officer who had served with him in BuPers-and to drop down from admiral's country to see an occasional shipboard movie. Title of one movie: The Desperate Hours...