From Sea of Thunder; Four Commanders and the last great Naval Campaign 1941-1945; by Evan Thompson
...Halsey sought consolation in other ways.
In his role as sea dog, he had a well deserved reputation for seeking a girl in every port. One of Week’s, jobs was to keep Halsey and his staff entertained off-duty. "I'm running a little party for the Admiral and getting some nurses from a hospital ship---God help them, the nurses I mean!" Weeks wrote his wife from Ulithi after the difficult visit to see the wounded aboard the hospital ship on November 11. A week later, Weeks wrote his wife, "The nurses were grand, good sports---they'd been working very hard with the wounded and were just as ready for a break as we were."
The nurses needed to be good sports. An Admiral’s aide to the chief of nursing aboard a hospital ship described a nurses’ party with Halsey and his staff: After the meal, one of the celebrants flipped a live cigarette in the wastebasket, which caught fire, whereupon an officer grabbed a CO2 bottle, stuck the cone in the basket, and quickly extinguished the flames. Then he pushed the nozzle up the dress of one of the nurses and squirted her between the legs. She let out a scream as the dry ice burned. Other schnockered officers grabbed CO2 bottles and started chasing nurses around the wardroom.
Though Halsey claimed his nickname "Bull" had been bestowed by newspapermen, in fact he had been dubbed "Bull" by fellow officers for his conquests ashore. Carnes Week’s son Carnes Jr., a Marine corporal, was invited to have drinks with Halsey at the St. Francis Hotel during a home leave in 1944. "When he partied, he really let himself go," Weeks recalled. "He always had a Marine guard outside his door, and I was asked to stand guard there that night. Inside, I could hear them down on all fours barking like a dog with this nice lady who was his friend for the evening."
