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...game, one of the first men in the dressing room was Fleet Admiral (ret.) William F. ("Bull") Halsey. No naval battle had ever given his salty heart more satisfaction. Bull bounced around like a midshipman, congratulating every man on the Navy squad. Navy Secretary Charles S. Thomas and Rear Admiral Walter Boone, Annapolis superintendent, did some backslapping of their own. This, after all, was the Army-Navy game-and the underdog middies had left the field on the long end of a 27-20 score...
Last week business was thriving in the Ten Million's Manhattan headquarters-four small rooms just off the lobby of the Roosevelt hotel. A big American flag spanned the wall of the reception room. Five telephones jangled constantly. Mail poured in. Greeting visitors to the headquarters offices was Rear Admiral John G. Crommelin, who retired from the Navy in 1950 after being officially reprimanded for his part in the "admirals' revolt" against the B-36. After talking in Washington to Joe McCarthy, Crommelin went to Florida and, in consultation with General Stratemeyer, conceived the idea...
This point of view has picked up some powerful spokesmen, including men like Senator Knowland and many of his Mid-Western Senate colleagues. It is not surprising, therefore, that the guiding heads of the "Ten Million Americans Mobilizing for Justice," Lieut. Gen. Stratemeyer, and Rear Admiral Crommelin, both favored the widening of the Korean War against China. They and other McCarthy supporters have found themselves opposed by the Administration and by the majority of the American people...
...Corp. brought out its new Plymouths and Dodges, all lower and longer than before, with Plymouth's new V-8 h.p. boosted to 157 and Dodge's to 193. Lincoln also showed off its 1955 model, sporting king-sized horizontal grilles and twin exhaust vents in the rear bumpers. Throughout the industry, sales were so brisk that some dealers have taken more orders for new cars in the past month than they had sold in the preceding twelve months...
...Rear Window. Hot and cold flashes of kissing and killing, as Alfred Hitchcock lets Jimmy Stewart, Grace Kelly and the customer get the eavesdrop on a murderer (TIME...