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Princeton University has bought an 500-acre plot three miles from Princeton for $1,500,000. University president Harold W. Dodds announced Tuesday. The land, formerly owned by the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, will be used for an aeronautical research center to be named for the late James V...
Since James V. Forrestal plunged to his death 18 months ago, no columnist worth his salt has failed to speculate on the contents of the late Defense Secretary's "secret diaries." There were even hints that the Cabinet member's private papers, which he had turned over to...
The 2,800 pages of notes dictated by Forrestal are being edited by his wartime assistant, Eugene S. Duffield, now assistant publisher of the Cincinnati Enquirer, and Walter Millis, Herald Tribune editorial writer and author (The Road to War). As for the diaries' contents, the Trib threw out a...
Presumably intended to fall into the Mencken tradition was Editor Huie's own lead article, "Untold Facts in the Forrestal Case." Based on word-of-mouth reports about the contents of Forrestal's private papers, it belabored the backbiters and columnists responsible, as Writer Huie put it, for...
In all, wrote Huie, Forrestal spent $150,000 of his own and his friends' money on such payoffs in France and Italy. When Forrestal was finally "driven from office" and suffered a nervous collapse, Huie implied, the Navy turned Forrestal's suite in a Navy hospital into a...