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Last week, with U.S. warships' guns again being fired in anger in another part of the world, the two navies made a special point of reaffirming their friendship. In Washington, U.S. Admiral Forrest Sherman, Chief of Naval Operations, welcomed genial Admiral Flavio Figueiredo de Medeiros, 62, chief of staff of Brazil's navy and Sherman's guest for a twelve-day visit to the U.S. After meeting U.S. Defense Secretary Louis Johnson and attending some white-glove parties, the Brazilian admiral, who commanded the 1st (Rio) naval district during the latter part of World War II, embarked...
...with Three Hats. Radford is generally regarded by his friends and admirers as one of the two most brilliant men in the active Navy. The other is 53-year-old Forrest Sherman, who, as CNO (Chief of Naval Operations), holds the Navy's top job. Sherman is also a carrier admiral-in fact, the first Navy flyer to become...
...bold, relentless and predatory" attempt to establish a monopoly, had rejected advertising "solely ... to force these advertisers not to [use] an available mode of communication." Judge Freed found the Horvitz brothers, Business Manager D. P. Self, Editor Frank Maloy and the Journal guilty of a civil violation of the Sherman Act. In announcing that he would restrain the from rejecting advertising for such reasons, the judge added that this would in no way affect its "operations . . as an organ of opinion." The Jour planned to appeal the decision...
...Saturday Square, and Hawkins Falls, based on nearby Woodstock, Ill.; Ted Mills's Portrait of America and Crisis; Charlie Andrews' Studs' Place, which drew 4,000 letters of protest (mostly from New York and Philadelphia) when it was dropped last month, and the Ransom Sherman Show, dedicated to the incurable inefficiency of the American male...
...breaks and poor judgment made the impulsive Hood the scapegoat of a lost cause. After his outnumbered troops had been decimated by Sherman's army, he turned northward in desperation to strike at Sherman's communications. Below Nashville he bottled up a Union army -then slept soundly while the Federals slipped away in the night on an unguarded turnpike, only 100 yards from the Confederate lines. His next move was even more disastrous: he followed the Federals a few miles north, and "without adequate artillery and over the protests of his officers," bled his army in a foolhardy...