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Like a premature March squall, Tallulah Bankhead blew into Washington, D.C., and set up a noisier commotion than both Houses of Congress combined. Invited by Alabama's Democratic Representative Frank ("Everything's made for love") Boykin to testify on the capital's need for a civic auditorium, Alabamian Bankhead gave her blessing to the project, but begged off from appearing in a Valentine message to "Darling Congressman Boykin." Scrawled she: "Ten a.m. is an unprecedented time for a child of the grease paint to cope with the sandman." Since Tallulah would not go to Capitol Hill...
...Boykin's bill, if made law, would destroy whatever usefulness the National Guard may still have for the Army...
Angry cries of protest sounded throughout Alabama and Mississippi. The 31st's commander, Major General Alexander G. Paxton, announced that morale and training had "hit a new low." Alabama's fat and usually jovial Representative Frank Boykin boiled up, introduced in Congress a sweeping resolution designed to stop the Army from breaking up National Guard divisions. Among its provisions: "In any case where a division of the . . . National Guard shall have been ordered into the active military service of the United States, no unit or component of such division shall be separated, detached, or otherwise removed from...
...Boykin's bill will probably die in committee. What will not die is the issue his bill raised: if men are recruited and organized on a fight-with-your-buddies basis, then morale is bound to plummet when the Army, for one excellent reason or another, breaks up the regional divisions. Until the Defense Department finds the courage to stand up to the politically powerful National Guard Association, U.S. defense is going to waste billions of dollars and much precious manpower on an antiquated and disruptive form of military organization...
...first, Prince denied that he had ever made such a call. But when RFC investigators found records showing that he had, and from Cousin Boykin's own office at that, Prince's memory improved. Still denying the accusations, he admitted the phone call. Last week, when Stu Symington sternly asked for an explanation, Frank Prince resigned...