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...Wall Street Men. Behind his huge desk, gazing skeptically over the top of his pipe and only occasionally flaring into tightlipped, concise profanity, Forrestal wrought some changes. One of them was to transform the Navy into a businesslike partnership between civilians and brass hats, drawing into the firm such men as regular Navyman Admiral Richard S. Edwards, on the one hand, and brilliant H. (for Herman) Struve Hensel, also a graduate of Princeton, ex-Wall Street attorney, on the other. Roosevelt lifted Hensel out of the Navy's Legal Department into an Assistant Secretaryship. There are many and various...
Eighteen years to the day after he had raised the flag at the dedication of Wright Field at Dayton, 74-year-old Orville Wright returned to the scene for a preview of the Army Air Forces Fair. Great changes had been wrought...
...fall of the year shone gently upon the broken cities and the exhausted fields of Europe. On Berlin's Kreuzberg, frost stiffened upon the worm-wrought, illegible features of an exhumed, Gestapo-killed cadaver to which someone had attached a tag reading, Homo sapiens...
...England's Roman Catholic Father Dale Roberts stoutly insisted: "No true Christian can accept the principle that essential evil can be wrought to attain a good...
Handicapped somewhat by scrimmage wrought injuries which are keeping four men on the bench, Coach Dick Harlow will send his untested team onto Soldiers Field tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock to face a favored and highly-touted Tufts squad. Before the game starts, the combined NROTC units of Tufts and Harvard will be reviewed on the field...