Word: details
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There may have been a time when four years spent in college could be considered an existence apart from the-main currents of life in America. There may have been--but such is certainly not the case in the Year of Our Lord 1947. The minute detail with which the problems and conditions confronting the nation are reflected within the 'cloistered walls" of Harvard belies whatever portion remains of the belief that higher education is conducted, within an ivory tower...
...excitement, young (33) Mike Reilly found himself elevated to codirector of the White House Detail. His wartime stewardship of Franklin Roosevelt's safety is recorded in this sequel to Starling of the White House (TIME, March 11, 1946). Readers will find it an amusing, properly reverent account of the Detail's war of nerves against a largely nonexistent army of assassins...
...Grunt for the Boss. Like most Presidents, F.D.R. thought he was being overguarded (70 men on the regular White House Detail, hundreds when he went on speaking tours). The one & only serious attempt at assassination, despite some 5,000 threatening letters a month, was the Miami shooting in 1933 which resulted in the death of Chicago's Mayor Anton Cermak...
...while, Roosevelt rode in an armored car that had originally belonged to Al Capone. Later, improved models were carried (on presidential tours) in an oversized baggage car that had once hauled animals for Barnum & Bailey's circus. Few possibilities were overlooked by the Presidential Detail: F.D.R.'s special Pullman was watertight and equipped with submarine escape hatches...
Attention to Details. Not the least important element in this story of how a judge was appointed is the fact that Murphy and Flynn were genuinely worried over the choice-whereas the majority of their fellow citizens were doubtless unaware that the vacancy even existed. Flynn's book, a record of such attention to detail, demonstrates again that eternal vigilance is the price of bossism. Ed Flynn "took care" of plain people in The Bronx so well that he became one of Roosevelt's closest political advisers and hobnobbed with history on missions to Moscow, Yalta...