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Long before Pentagon days, Lieut. Colonel George Marshall so impressed General John Pershing. The Navy's Forrest Sherman was taken under the wing of Admiral Chester Nimitz; Lauris Norstad, now top airman in Europe, was tapped by General Hap Arnold. Lieut. General Al Gruenther, generally regarded as the most impressive briefing officer the Pentagon has produced, was once a comer himself, is now Eisenhower's chief of staff at SHAPE. Recently, Gruenther called for the Army's brightest comer, Brigadier General Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Schuyler, 50, to serve as his plans officer. He also got the loan...
GENERAL WILLIAM T. SHERMAN INSANE...
Cost of Living. In Sherman, Texas, Price's department store advertised $2 shirts...
...Quibble. Before the meeting adjourned, Johnson told the President that he wanted to start the fleet moving from the Philippines toward Japan. "The President said, 'That is a good idea, do it.' I turned to Admiral Sherman and said, 'If you will excuse yourself, you get it started right away.' " The meeting adjourned and the following night the conferees met again at Blair House. "The Secretary of State moved, reading from a prepared statement, that we send the Navy and Air Force in ... The military neither recommended nor opposed it. We had on the previous evening...
...Frankfurt, Salzburg and Trieste. General Omar Bradley stopped in Paris to talk over lagging weapons production, went on to London where he tried, but failed, to settle the question of whether a British or U.S. admiral was to command in the Mediterranean. Only the Navy's Admiral Forrest Sherman was still at home and he, too, was getting ready for the grand tour...