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Because of its long, slim prow, the United States is racier-looking than most ocean liners. Its hull is black, its superstructure dazzling white. Around the spacious sundeck, 24 aluminum life boats (capacity: 3,280) glisten in the sun; above it all stand two gigantic red, white & blue stacks. They are the biggest stacks in the world-not because the engines need them (actually the stacks are crammed with air-conditioning equipment, blowers, etc.), but because only stacks of their proportions would look right on such a giant...
...first day on the stand, Army Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins hurled in a grenade. Grey, prow-jawed "Lightning Joe" was asked whether MacArthur had ever disobeyed a directive. Bradley and Marshall had said no. Said General Collins: "There was one specific incident that did occur . . . one of the instructions that the Joint Chiefs had issued to General MacArthur was that he would not use anything but Korean troops on the [Yalu] frontier, and he did not comply with that. He sent American forces directly to the frontier without advising us ahead of time on it, and when...
...Boston's strapping, prow-jawed Archbishop Richard J. Gushing, 55, Bostonborn blacksmith's son, whose able leadership of his 1,300,000-member flock has made him one of the best known members of the U.S. hierarchy...
...thousand years ago the Vikings of Scandinavia sailed and rowed their great open boats across the seas to Normandy, Iceland, Ireland and America with no protection but that of a huge dragon's head prow. There were no insurance companies then to tell the Vikings that their ships were poor risks, no spoilsports to cry "careful...
...Chiefs of Staff. There was lanky, homely Chairman Omar Bradley, the map of Missouri on his face and the map of Europe behind him on the wall; the Air Force's handsome, greying General Hoyt Vandenberg, lounging long-legged in his leather chajr; the Army's peppery, prow-chinned General Joe Collins, who likes to do a lot of the talking. At Bradley's left sat a pink-faced man with thin hair who wears his four-star admiral's uniform with the careful air of a Sunday-best suit...