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...notable shots: the breath-catching moment when aged Cardinal Dougherty stumbled and nearly fell from the rostrum; Speaker Martin's frozen face as Dewey accepted the nomination; Governor Sigler's dejection as he waited to release the Michigan delegation; Herbert Hoover's emotion at the affectionate demonstration that greeted him; the Dewey motorcade, threading its way through the wet, crowded streets to Convention Hall for the acceptance speech...
...voted a European Recovery Program because it believes that the free nations of the world can grow in strength and unity . . . Our task is to put the world on its feet, and not on our back . . ." The promise was to be repeated, in more solemn tones, by Herbert Hoover the next night...
...first man to fly faster than sound in the XS-1 was Air Force Captain Charles Yeager. By now, four others have done it: Major G. E. Lundquist and Captain James P. Fitzgerald of the Air Force, and NACA Test Pilots Herbert Hoover† and Howard Lilly, who was recently killed in a crash. These five had the strange experience of outflying the roar of their own rocket motors...
...Lyons' story is convincing. The Quaker boy putting himself through college by delivering laundry, working in a Sierra mine camp, becoming a brilliant, wealthy engineer-all this is good, moving Horatio Alger stuff. And Lyons is doubtless on the side of historical justice when he insists that President Hoover was 1) not responsible for the depression, and 2) anticipated many of the economic remedies for which his successor was later hailed...
...Lyons fails to make the only living ex-President of the U.S. "warm, whimsical" or very human. He has even desperately collected specimens of Hoover's "humor." Readers will gain new respect for Hoover's intelligence, stubborn integrity and devotion to public welfare, but in Lyons' pages he remains an unbending, inaccessible man in a stiff collar, a man peculiarly unfitted for the cutthroat rough & tumble of political life...