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...Spectators at the Washington Post's celebrities' golf tournament were fascinated by the spectacle of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz teeing a golf ball off Actor Edward Arnold's eye while General Dwight D. Eisenhower beamed from the sidelines (see cut). The Admiral didn't swing...
Last year he put his money on MacArthur, but felt that Eisenhower, Nimitz Arnold, and Vandegrift were suitable substitutes. Playing the law of averages. George's money is again riding with "Mac" to be honored by the University...
Columbia's blossoms blanketed all the brass in sight. Honorarily LL.D.'d, besides Marshall and Halsey: General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Admiral Ernest J. King, General Alexander A. Vandegrift, Vice Admiral Emory S. Land (ret.), Major General Lewis B. Hershey, Major General Norman T. Kirk and (in absentia) General Henry H. Arnold and General Douglas MacArthur...
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz' wife, Catherine, played the piano at a benefit for Washington's National Symphony, but only as an accompanist. Soloist: the Nimitz' wonder-spaniel, Freckles, who gave Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms such a sensitive interpretation (see cut) that he had to do three encores...
Divergent opinions were voiced by Democratic leader Rayburn, who said the proposed $6,000,000,000 slash would help push reluctant millions of people abroad "into the arms of Communism," and Rep. Engel (R-Mich), chairman of the Army appropriations subcommittee, who declared that if General Eisenhower and Admiral Nimitz cannot run the army and Navy efficiently on less money they "ought to stop aside and give someone else a chance...