ARMY & NAVY: Magruder & Chamberlin

Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder, reprimanded by the Navy Department and asked to make no more speeches as the result of his attacks on Navy inefficiency (TIME, Oct. 3 et seq.) , made a speech in Philadelphia last week — a short speech meant not to be offensive. Among a few other things, he said: "I could make a speech here tonight that would bring headlines in tomorrow's papers. But I am not the type that seeks notoriety."

Another speaker on the same program was Clarence Duncan...

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