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...corps, maintenance depots. He had slept in sleeping bags, on desert sands, on the jogging backs of mules. He had talked to kings, prime ministers, generals, admirals. As a lawyer he was well equipped to digest what he heard. As a soldier (he commanded New York's "Fighting 69th" Regiment in World War I, won the Congressional Medal of Honor, the D.S.C. and D.S.M.) he was well equipped to put together what he saw. As a reporter he was a natural. But no newspaper got Wild Bill Donovan's story. Wild Bill would not talk...
Birthday. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, his 69th; which he spent at his desk over the world's woes...
...been sent by Secretary of the Navy Knox, Colonel William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan wrote a series of articles on Hitler's undercover storm-troops which were enough to make a U. S. citizen's eyes pop. Collaborating with Donovan, who once commanded the famed "Fighting 69th," now practices law, was Foreign Correspondent Edgar Mowrer...
...Fighting 69th (Warner Bros.), a fictionized account of the intimate life and exploits of Manhattan's famed World War regiment continues, in slightly modified form, Warners' long time efforts to refine through suffering the character of their ace triggerman, James Cagney. Sometimes the effort has resulted in Mr. Cagney's death (The Roaring Twenties). Sometimes he survives (Here Comes the Navy). In either case his reward has usually been the love of a pure, high minded girl. As Jerry Plunkett, a Brooklyn braggart, James Cagney is not only a disgrace to his semisavage comrades, but he turns...
Francis Neville Chamberlain, little-publicized 25-year-old son of Great Britain's Prime Minister, a $25-a-week chemical plant apprentice, was called up for service, joined the 69th Anti-Aircraft Brigade...