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After 30 days of testimony and bickering, the Congressional Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee last week got back to the man in the middle of the mess. The man: Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, commander of the Pacific Fleet on the fatal...
...Died. Rear Admiral Albert Borland Randall, U.S.N.R., 66, ex-captain of the Leviathan, the Manhattan, and famed for rescues at sea; in Bethesda, Md. In 1939, after 40 years as a mariner, he retired. But not for long. War made him commandant of the U.S. Maritime Service...
...Navy was afraid it was licked. In its extremity, this week, it prepared a compromise. Jim Forrestal and topnotch Naval Aviator Rear Admiral Arthur Radford will go before the Senate committee with something new-the Navy's own plan for merger, based on the elaborate report made for the Navy some time ago by Investment Banker Ferd Eberstadt. The compromise lay in the possible creation of a Secretary of Air, which Eberstadt had proposed but which Forrestal has hitherto rejected. Main features of the plan...
...will assume his rank of rear admiral as soon as he is detached from the Midway...
...Calver can do is to nag his clients to eat hot lunches, watch their weight and have yearly checkups. The Navy recently made Dr. Calver a temporary rear admiral and his grateful patients have passed a bill forbidding the Navy to transfer him without consent of the Congress...