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Neither of two downy-cheeked young bluejackets had ever heard of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, so the U.S. Navy League recently mapped an "Operation Remember" to remind the Navy's juniors that many of yesterday's heroes have not yet sailed off into the fog banks of history. In Manhattan last week some 50 retired admirals and Marine Corps generals, flying in from Remember's opening ceremonies in Annapolis, paraded up lower Broadway, felt salty planks under foot again aboard a dozen Atlantic Fleet vessels tied up at local piers. Senior officer present: Fleet Admiral William...
...years, fate overtook Fleet Admiral Ernie King. At the Portsmouth, N.H. naval hospital, where he had been spending the summer, Sundowner King, aged 77, died of a heart ailment. After funeral services at Washington's National Cathedral, with Old Comrades General Marshall, Admirals William D. Leahy and Chester Nimitz among the honorary pallbearers, Staunch Mariner King, who never saw the sea until he was 18 but made its mastery his life, was buried at Annapolis...
Married. Constance Russell Winant 53, wealthy widow of John G. Winant onetime ambassador to the Court of St. James's, and breeder of blue-blooded show terriers; and retired Navy Captain Marion Eppley, 69, wartime staff officer with Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz and president of the Eppley Laboratory (precision measuring instruments) in Newport, R.I.; both for the second time (his first: the late Ethelberta Russell Eppley, sister of the bride); in Manhattan...
...from her South Pacific rank of Ensign Nellie Forbush to Admiral in the Texas Navy, thereby giving her equal Lone Star flag rank with Admirals Dwight Eisenhower (who recently also accepted the title of honorary president of the Camp Fire Girls) and onetime Chief of Naval Operations Chester Nimitz...
Senator McCarran has his reasons for quashing an examination that would jeopardize his position of ringmaster in the anti-subversive circus. His subcommittee has merely relit the old McCarthy charges against the State Department, and the result has been smoke rather than light. By eliminating the Nimitz Commission, Senator McCarran prolongs the security confusion in the best interests of Senator McCarran...