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...mammoth M. A. Hanna Co., and his estate in the Cleveland suburbs neighbors Humphrey's. No stranger on the Washington scene, Rose served as secretary to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes after he graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1931, was stationed in the Pentagon as an Army colonel during World War II, served as director of war contract settlement for the Government...
Battle Renewed The long-smoldering war between the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force is blazing again in the corridors of the Pentagon with the fiercest intensity since the "revolt of the admirals" in 1949. One reason is that the services, after the fat days of Korean war appropriations, are beginning to scramble for funds in anticipation of leaner days under Eisenhower. Another is that, as Inauguration Day grows closer, retiring Defense Secretary Bob Lovett is losing his firm grip. A third and more fundamental reason is that the Navy is certain it has finally found a method (secret...
...Defense Department, trying to get some control over what is published about the armed services, last week announced two new ground rules for newsmen covering the Pentagon...
Newsmen promptly protested the new rules. Pentagon reporters, who are already hamstrung by the tightest security rules in Washington, pointed out both changes would mean that most of their news in the future would come from handouts. Some Pentagon reporters said that they would file stories, without checking with Berding, rather than take a chance that their exclusives would be released under the new rule to other newsmen...
...Pentagon ceremony in Washington, Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt S. Vandenborg had a prize for General Curtis LeMay and his Strategic Air Command: the Daedalian Trophy for 1951, awarded each year to the command with the fewest aircraft accidents in at least 100,000 hours of flying...