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One of his diversionary efforts was aimed at an old and familiar adversary: Congress. He touched it off by refusing to turn over to a Senate subcommittee the unpublished personal papers of the late Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal. "Not in the public interest," said a sharp White House...
Brass Knuckles. For two tempestuous years, close-cropped Bob Patterson was a central figure in the postwar upheaval in Pentagonia. His behind-the-scenes battle with Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal on unification of the armed forces was a brass-knuckled epic; Patterson wanted a total merger, with all services...
Answering Calls. Black-browed Bill Draper is one of that group of Wall Streeters-among them Forrestal, Stimson, Lovett, Patterson, McCloy and Har-riman-who, though usually Republican, have temporarily answered the call of Government whenever a problem needed a tough, practical administrator to straighten it out. Unlike some of...
The Navy last week staked an early claim to a large chunk of the U.S. defense budget for the next decade. Secretary Dan Kimball announced that plans were being drawn to build not one, but ten, 60,000-ton aircraft carriers, each larger than any carrier now afloat.* To be...
Santa Fe Artist Randall Davey, who has painted such celebrities as John Galsworthy, James Forrestal and Madame Schumann-Heinle, but is better known for his race track studies, was busily putting some final strokes on another famous face: the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick.