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...Three decades of intensive globetrotting, politicking and lawyering had prepared General Donovan for the job he did in setting up the U.S. in world espionage. One generation removed from County Cork, he was the mild-mannered, studious type, got his antonymous nickname as a quarterback at Columbia. He was heroic, but no wild man, in World War I, where he picked up seven decorations, including the Congressional Medal. The Law & Politics. After the war he poked around China and Siberia, came home to work profitably at corporation law, less profitably at Republican politics. He helped mastermind the Hoover campaign...
Postmaster General Robert Hanne-gan surprised Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly by assimilating a heroic-sized "Black Cow" -six scoops of ice cream in three bottles of root beer. A pop-eyed Chicago Daily News editorialist pointed a moral: "This is an age of power, size and grandeur...
Also reported safe: Major General George M. Parker Jr., Wainwright's lieutenant; Lieut. Colonel James Patrick Sinnott Devereux, commander of the marines in the heroic defense of Wake Island in December 1941. (Colonel Devereux's mother and 27 -year-old wife had died since he went to prison...
Wishbone-shaped Wake, scene of one of the Marines' heroic stands in the war's early weeks, had another last-ditch garrison aboard. But no one went to rout them out. They were dying on the vine, as dozens of other bypassed garrisons in the Pacific were dying...
...lightest and brightest moments You Came Along follows with gusto the happy shenanigans of three heroic and irresponsible Army pilots (Robert Cummings, Don DeFore, Charles Drake) assigned to tour the U.S. on a bond-selling mission. They are under the supervision of Treasury Agent I. V. Hotchkiss. When I. V. turns out to be Ivy, a svelte, dazzling gilthead (Lizabeth Scott), all the necessary ingredients are in the shaker. If only the bitters had been left out, the result would be a refreshing hot-weather mixture of laughter and lighthearted love...