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...Silliest kudos (awarded in 1939): Beaver College's "Doctorate of Fortitude and Faith" to Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd; Newark University's "Doctorate of Canine Fidelity" to Bonzo, a Seeing...
...Beaver's case for a second front deliberately brushed beyond such military factors as the Allied shipping shortage, the drain on Britain's home defenses, the difficulties still in the way of all-out U.S. help in a continental offensive. His case rested in a single sentence: "If the Russians are defeated and driven out of the war, never will such a chance come to us again...
Restless because his asthma failed to respond to Florida sunshine, the Beaver hopped to Nassau to visit the Duke of Windsor and other friends. At dinner one night he broke a tooth on a chicken bone, went to the island's most expensive dentist to have it replaced. At week's end the Beaver returned to Miami Beach, gnawed more chicken bones, broke his new tooth...
Before he settled down to his assignment, the Beaver detoured back to Miami Beach for a short rest. The Florida climate is beneficial to his asthma. It also inspired the Beaver to broadcast to his fellow Canadians his passionate conviction that the United Nations' No. 1 battlefront is Russia, where supplies and men must be rushed for a "deadly, offensive stroke." Giving a Beaverish twist to the Beatitudes, the welterweight lord declared: "Unless we have resolute, determined, brave citizens trained to handle the tanks and guns . . . then we cannot be blessed, we cannot be the peacemakers, we cannot inherit...
...sooner had the Beaver left on a U.S. mission than the Army gave Editor Owen six days to report in uniform. (Later he was given three weeks' deferment...