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Headed for the No. 2 position, Vice Chief of Naval Operations under non-flying Fleet Admiral Nimitz, was DeWitt Clinton ("Duke") Ramsey, son of an Army officer, but a naval aviator since 1916 with a well-balanced war record of sea and shore duty, and with a smooth personality which fitted him well for dealings with the civilian arms of government. The boost up the ladder would raise Ramsey from two-star to three-star rank. The man he replaced, armorplated Admiral Richard Stanislaus Edwards, would go to the quiet Western Sea Frontier (headquarters in San Francisco...
...from the Pentagon across the Potomac, Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson said "no" - the Japs' failure to retaliate against Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet and the Superfortresses merely meant that they were hoarding "plenty" of planes against invasion. Another air admiral, DeWitt Clinton ("Duke") Ramsey, new Fifth Fleet chief of staff, defined "plenty." He estimated the enemy hoard at 9,000 planes...
...expanded (in 1925) into a network series conducted by Home Economist Ida Bailey Allen. By 1930 P & G strongly suspected that radio was here to stay. Looking around for someone to head its radio department, company officials decided that the copy department chief might qualify. Handsome William McCreary Ramsey II turned out to be a good choice...
Puddles to Vallee. First of Ramsey's five-day-a-week dramatic serials was The Puddle Family, lifted bodily from a comic strip. A year's trial convinced him that his daytime drama was on the right track-but he felt he needed something more emotionally robust than the comic-strip Puddles. Why not build a plot around a kindly, sympathetic prototype of mother? Ma Perkins was last week being renewed for still another (her 13th) year...
Advertiser Ramsey does not give radio all the credit for P & G's soaring gross sales (from $116,593,142 in 1934 to $311,496,273 in 1944), but his whopping ($22 million) radio outlay shows what P & G thinks of radio as a salesman...