Trigger-Quick"

James Vincent Forrestal '15, Undersecretary of the Navy, who in this capacity will act as aide to Donald Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board, was recently dubbed "Trigger-quick Jim Forrestal" by Life.

Spending only one year as an undergraduate in Hanover, Mr. Forrestal transferred to Princeton and, upon his graduation in 1915, served in naval aviation in the World War. Upon his discharge, he took up financial reporting for the now defunct New York World, entered the investment firm of Dillon, Read & Co. when the paper folded, and became its president in 1938. President Roosevelt made him first an administrative assistant and then boosted him to Undersecretary of the Navy, in charge of contracts and supply, in 1940.