No Gold Lace on This AdmiralGold lace, fuss and feather and all spit and polish” disappear in combat areas of modern warfare. Typical of the informality that rules the highest ranks are these new pictures of COMSOPAC”— Adml. William F Halsey, commander of the South Pacific Force of the United States Pacific Fleet. A new formal portrait appears at upper left, but even that is a far cry from the old-fashioned admiral sketched at lower right. In center photo. Admiral Halsey, dressed in drab Marine Corps dungarees, comforts appendicitis victim Pfc. Emanuel Caruso of West Newton, Mass., in Bougainville hospital tent. Even more informal is the admiral’s garb in the bottom photo, where he is being interviewed by war correspondents outside his Bougainville tent headquarters.Germans Becoming More Worried