Wanted...

Fierce-browed Admiral William Frederick Halsey, one of the U.S. Navy's fightingest admirals was just about out of a job. At his advance headquarters in a Solomons jungle last week, correspondents were called in, given the tip-off that his work in the South Pacific was about over. When "Bull" Halsey, once famed Annapolis fullback (1902-3), took over the South Pacific command in October 1942, the Marines on Guadalcanal were in trouble. Halsey waded right in.

With shrewd use of small forces, he outmaneuvered and outfought the Japanese, pushed them back toward Rabaul where they would be crushed under the bombs of MacArthur's Fifth Air Force as well as Halsey's own varied airfleets.

With last month's bypassing of Rabaul and capture of the St. Matthias Islands, Halsey reached the end of his road. Above his area the commands of Nimitz and MacArthur (under both of whom he had worked) had joined. Next job for "Bull" Halsey, one of only three four-star admirals in the Pacific,* is still a layman's guess. A good bet: it will be another fighting job in the Pacific. Headlong Admiral Halsey neither has nor cultivates any genius for riding a desk.

*And the only one with a Presidential possibility--his flag secretary, Lieut. Commander Harold Stassen on his staff.

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