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History lay on Major Eisenhower as he packed his bags and moved on to the Army's famed Command and General Staff school at Fort Leavenworth. Never before had he slogged so hard, and in the summer of 1926 Ike graduated at the top of the class of 275 of the most promising officers of the U.S. Army. Two years later he graduated at the top of the Army War College, too. After the siege of Fort Leavenworth was won, there was a grand celebration at the Hotel Muehlebach in Kansas City, with Ike roaring out Casey Jones...
...Major General Garrison H. Davidson, 51, onetime (1933-38) West Point football coach, since 1954 commandant of the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kans...
Soldier. Rose to lieutenant colonel in artillery and infantry commands under the post-1944 leftist government, with time out for study at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. and West Point. Bvoke with the government after the 1949 assassination of his friend and patron, anti-Communist Colonel Francisco Arana, Arbenz' main rival for the presidency...
From the window of his cell in Leavenworth federal prison in the early spring of 1920, Robert Stroud watched the building of the gallows on which he was supposed to be hanged for murder. At 19 he had drawn a twelve-year sentence for killing a man who had beaten up his girl friend; while serving out that sentence in Leavenworth, Stroud had stabbed to death a guard who mistreated him. Eight days before Stroud's scheduled execution, President Woodrow Wilson scrawled on a piece of paper: "Commuted to life...
...reason, apparently, was that proud and querulous Robert Stroud often got prison bureaucrats sorely annoyed at him by insisting on his right to carry on scientific work in his cell. In 1942, exasperated officials put a halt to his researches: they sent him, in handcuffs and leg irons, from Leavenworth to tougher Alcatraz. He is there now, aged 65, still in solitary confinement. He has spent more time in solitary-39 years-than any other federal prisoner in U.S. history...