Few civilians have ever heard of Rear Admiral Harold Gardiner Bowen, but the U.S. Navy knows him very well indeed. Stocky and bald, the fiery Admiral possesses a quality much rarer than courage in battle: an absolute fearlessness of superior rank when one of his pet projects is involved. His scrappy perseverance is a departmental legend. Over strong brass-hat opposition, he helped browbeat the Navy into adopting new high-pressure, high-temperature steam turbines, which have proved invaluable in World War II's ships (TIME, July 12, 1943). He has been officially cited as the spark...
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