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Last week Chief of Naval Operations Forrest Sherman brusquely ordered Crommelin to "refrain from public statements . . . which are critical of the Department of Defense." Defiantly, just one hour after receiving the order, he addressed the Park-Presidio Optimist Club; the next day, the San Francisco Business League. His pitch was the same but he had a new preamble to key passages: "I don't intend this as criticism . . . you can decide for yourselves...
...marriage ended in tragedy. One night when he was on the Mexican border -on a tour of duty during which he later pursued "Pancho" Villa-his house in San Francisco's Presidio caught fire. His son Warren was saved, but his wife and three daughters were burned to death. His severity and ramrod correctness simply seemed to increase...
...Army's late Surgeon General William Crawford Gorgas, whose medical battle against yellow fever in the jungle made possible the building of the Panama Canal. *Who is not unsung. His name lives in the U.S. Army's Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco's Presidio...
...tout's secret that U.S. Delegate Warren Austin, as "personal representative" of President Truman, had formally offered to turn over to U.N. the Army's 2½-sq.-mi. Presidio, perched spectacularly above San Francisco Bay. But Russia's Georgi Saksin promptly demanded that San Francisco be barred from the track...
Faced with such an embarrassment of hospitality, the delegates could not make up their minds. Dodging a final decision, they recommended to the full 54-nation headquarters site committee a choice of three suitable areas: San Francisco's Presidio, Philadelphia's Belmont-Roxborough site, a tract near White Plains...