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Died. Basil Radford, 55, British cinemactor, whose playing of a deadpan English cricket fan in The Lady Vanishes made him famous on both sides of the Atlantic; of a liver ailment; in London...
...still not prepared to use Chiang Kai-shek's Formosa-based forces as a threat to Red China's flank. In Washington last week Admiral Arthur Radford, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, reported that U.S. arms aid to Chiang is "disappointingly slow...
...Arthur W. Radford...
Early Career: Graduated from Annapolis 18th (of 176), in the same class (1916) but ahead of two leading candidates for the job of CNO, Admirals Radford and Carney. Served on battleship Pennsylvania in World War I. Began a routine series of tours, too heavily larded with staff assignments (said his friends) for a successful career. In 1942, became director of officer personnel in the Navy's Bureau of Personnel...
Five men were on deck for Forrest Sherman's job as Chief of Naval Operations. Most conspicuous among them-and the Navy's popular choice-was Admiral Arthur W. Radford, boss of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Brilliant, bluntly outspoken, Airman Radford was Airman Sherman's own choice to succeed him two years hence. But popular "Raddy" Radford had led the Navy's revolt against unification in 1949, was anathema to the Air Force, whose giant B-36 bomber he scornfully labeled a "billion-dollar blunder," and had been called a "fancy Dan" by Omar Bradley...