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...Like Nimitz and Halsey...
...since the London mob cheered gaudy Lord Nelson had any sailorman returned to port from victories so vast. But Americans were inclined to be a little vague about the U.S. Navy's white-haired, pink-cheeked Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, who had directed the Battle of the Pacific from a desk. He had never courted publicity. He had accumulated stiff titles like CINCPAC or CINCPOA instead of nicknames. And he had spent most of the war at Pearl Harbor and Guam...
...five stars, hawsers, other seagoing gizmos was built in front of City Hall, and vast mobs gathered to watch the Admiral go aboard to the shrill of bosuns' calls. In the evening 2,000 people paid $15 a plate to attend a posh Waldorf-Astoria dinner where Admiral Nimitz* was introduced by Nelson Rockefeller...
...like many another seadog since the days of Salamis, Fleet Admiral Nimitz seemed to yaw a little in the shifting winds of press conferences. Example: of the atomic bomb he said, "It is a weapon which will undoubtedly add to the complexities of field commanders...
Where the Bloom Is on the Sage. But all this took place on the eastern seaboard. When it was over, Texas-born Chester Nimitz flew back to the Lone Star State, where every man, woman and child knew all about him and felt he had contributed mightily to the greater glory of the greatest warrior race in history. In Austin, Christmas tree lights were strung up over the streets and in Dallas huge crowds yipped and whooped happily...