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...seemed a little puzzled by all the todo. They talked mostly about business. They had 800 resolutions to consider, ranging from veterans' housing to immigration. In Madison Square Garden and the 71st Infantry Regiment Armory, they would listen to a whole flock of headline speakers: Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, the Air Forces' Tooey Spaatz, Defense Secretary James Forrestal, New York's Governor Tom Dewey, and Britain's Captain Sir Ian Fraser, president of the British Legion...
Last week Secretary of the Interior J. A. Krug summoned 50 bigwigs to Washington. He called on Navy Secretary James Forrestal, Secretary of War Kenneth C. Royall, Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, and the Army Air Forces' Lieut. General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, to tell them of the fix the services were...
...Poet T. S. Eliot; and Yale's President Charles Seymour (who reminded a Princeton ban quet audience that their university had been founded by seven Yalemen and one Harvardman). And among the scholars in their academic robes were the uniformed General Eisenhower and Admirals Leahy and Nimitz. The Marine Band burst into Hail to the Chief. Escorted by Princeton's President Harold W. Dodds, the President of the U.S. marched to the commencement platform (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Eisenhower and the present commanders of other services will be gone. Sometime next fall, the Veterans Administration's General Omar Bradley will probably take over Ike's job. Atlantic Fleet Commander William ("Spike") Blandy, who ran the Bikini bomb tests, will probably replace Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz as Chief of Naval Operations. Lieutenant General Hoyt Vandenberg, former C.I.G. head, now replacing General Ira Eaker as deputy chief of air, is slated to step into Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz's shoes sometime next winter; the Marines' Major General Graves Erskine will probably take over from General...
With the naming of these men for Commencement honors, in part because of their wartime achievements, the University followed up last year's presentations, which saw honorary doctorates conferred on four of the nation's war leaders--Eisenhower, Arnold, Nimitz, and Vandergrift...