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...Admiral Bill Halsey's staff-a piece of luck such as few fresh-water reserve officers enjoyed. But after that he made his own way. His first interview with the Admiral was one of the shortest in naval history. Growled Halsey: "Are you down here to work?" Said Stassen: "Yes, sir." That...
...Lucky Stassen. He saw action as Halsey's observer during a naval engagement off Empress Augusta Bay, and began to be regarded as a sort of human charm: his ship was hit twice and frequently straddled by gunfire but it suffered little damage. He saw more action after that-many an officer was comforted to see him on the bridge of the Admiral's flagship during the vicious and decisive Battles of the Philippine Sea. Sailormen took to the custom of patting his khaki shirt, just for luck...
...returned to the U.S. before the war was over. Franklin Roosevelt had, to Commander Stassen's private amazement, appointed him a delegate to the San Francisco Conference. But he was back with Halsey when the fleet moved into Tokyo Bay. There his big job was to get U.S. prisoners of war out of bondage. He began at a camp near Tokyo called Omori Prison Camp No. 8, was wildly cheered by gaunt...
Americans, including famed Marine Corps Ace Colonel Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington. Then he was challenged by a Japanese colonel who said, stiffly: "I have no authority to release these prisoners to you." Said Stassen: "Colonel, you have no authority, period." Stassen went sleepless for the first 70 hours; in 14 days he got 13,000 men to hospital ships...
Suspicion. Among the rank & file of politicians, the boys who know the ropes, no one laughs at Harold Stassen. Although many of them think that he has talked too early and too much, they have nothing but admiration for the way he has performed his enormous job of campaigning. But most of them watch him as they would watch a good thoroughbred galloping along the street outside the track -no matter how fast he runs, they cannot see how he can get past the judges' stand...