TURKEY: Famed Bristol

What is it to be famous? If not one American in a hundred could pick out Rear Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol from among all the U. S. Rear Admirals, active and retired, standing in a row—surely then Rear Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol is not famous.

Last week he returned from seven years in the service of his country overseas. There was no mention of the fact in Detroit, in Kansas City, in Omaha, in New Orleans—no mention even in Philadelphia, a bare 100 miles from Manhattan's midriff, where he disembarked. He is not,...

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