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...himself almost on the dot) he begins his "second day." From his attic bedroom he steps into his study for 2½ solid hours of work on Washington. Here visitors, and even his family, are forbidden. On the walls are autographed pictures of his friends Winston Churchill and Admiral Nimitz, a letter from President Roosevelt thanking Freeman for suggesting the term "liberation" instead of the "invasion" of Europe, and a Helen Hokinson New Yorker cartoon in which a bewildered matron returns two fat volumes to her bookshop, saying: "I guess I bit off more 'Robert E. Lee' than...
Those two masterly books brought Freeman invitations to lecture at the Army & Navy War Colleges and the Army's staff and command school. They also brought him the admiration of such men as Eisenhower, Marshall, Patton and Nimitz. Freeman still guides visiting generals over the Civil War battlefields near Richmond and no living person knows the terrain so well...
Born. To Catherine Vance Nimitz Lay, 34, eldest daughter of retired Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, and Commander James Thomas Lay, 39, commanding officer of the destroyer Orleck: twin sons, their second and third; in San Diego. Names: Chester Nimitz, Richard Freeman. Weights...
...Navy-Air Force quarrel had been brought out into the open last January, when Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz in his swan song proclaimed: "The Navy of the future will be capable of ... delivering atomic bombs from carrier-based planes." The carrier-admirals for whom he spoke saw the Navy's new bombers operating off 80,000-ton carriers (for one of which Forrestal has approved plans). From these floating airbases, they claimed, they could bomb the enemy from any point in the world. The Air Force quietly seethed...
Asked to elaborate, Nimitz said: "The Mediterranean is a very important area for us. Wherever the United States has forces ashore, those forces are entitled to have visible evidence of support...