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...Sergeant Holsen and another policeman were riding patrol one day when they sighted a troop of baboons. The men took a few pot shots with their revolvers and the apes fled. One, scuttling on all fours like the rest, lagged behind. Captured, he proved to be a black native boy, 12 to 14 years old. Like a baboon, he chattered, jerked and nodded his head, scratched his body with his forefinger. He had a nervous, baboon-like grin. His quadrupedal gait had caused an abnormal overdevelopment of his haunches...
...middle of the Big Parade, a good-natured, redheaded, gangling young giant from the Tennessee hills became U. S. war hero No. 1. His name was Alvin Cullum York. Singlehanded, Sergeant York bagged 20 Germans in No Man's Land, then, with seven of his men, brought in 132 more Germans. By the time the Big Parade was over, Hero York had been lionized, publicized, feted, decorated and breveted "the one-man army." After that modest Alvin York just went back to his family farm at Pall Mall, Tenn., where he raised white-faced cattle, sheep and corn, traded...
...Tennessee's delegate to the New York World's Fair, Sergeant York had another look at the outside world. It looked rather strange. A new World War was in the making, a new generation had grown up which scarcely remembered who Sergeant York...
...Hollywood did. More than one Hollywood cinemagnate has been haunted over the years by visions of a sure-fire billing: Sergeant Alvin C. York in The Life of Sergeant York. More than one has made fat offers in an effort to lure the hero, who is far from well off, to Hollywood. York always smiled politely, drawled his thanks, said he guessed he wouldn't. Until last fortnight...
Last fortnight Producer Jesse L. Lasky, with as much hullabaloo as if he had captured 132 Germans singlehanded, announced that he had captured Sergeant York. True, it was a little late. Ruddy, fat and 52, Sergeant York was no longer just the type to play a hero even when the hero was himself. Perhaps Gary Cooper or Gary Grant would do it. Be that as it may, Sergeant York, said Jesse Lasky, had agreed to come to Hollywood to work (with famed Author Gene Fowler) on a script for The Life of Sergeant York. The picture would cost some...