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...worse than being in jail: being in the Army. Drafted in 1942, just as he was beginning a career in professional boxing, he rebelled against military discipline, flattened his captain with a fast right, went AWOL from Fort Dix, N.J. and wound up in the disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. A connoisseur of jails by then, Rocky found the Army brand the worst. "All I can say is, stay out of any prison run by a bunch of amateurs...
...Leavenworth the authorities taught Rocky something beside new methods for kicking the world in the teeth. They taught him that fist fighting can be an honorable profession. As a member of the Leavenworth boxing team, he learned what it meant to be a "legitimate wheel.'' and he found that he liked it. Suddenly, at the age of 20, Rocky turned into an adult...
...were not allowed a peek. These "MacArthur histories" provide the basis for the best part of this unevenly documented book. Willoughby is happiest describing the Southwest Pacific campaigns in which MacArthur was so magnificently right, advancing by more than 100 amphibious landings to his promised Philippine return. An oldtime Leavenworth command-school lecturer with a flair for the drama of military history, Willoughby compares MacArthur's capture of New Guinea outposts with Napoleon's campaigns, in East Prussia, and shows with maps that the boss took Hollandia by the same classic double envelopment that won Cannae for Hannibal...
Died. George R. ("Machine Gun") Kelly, 59, onetime minor-league bootlegger who hit the big time in 1933 with the kidnaping and $200,000 ransoming of Oklahoma Oilman Charles F. Urschel; of a heart ailment; in the Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kans...
Encore. In Kansas City, Kans., released from Leavenworth Penitentiary after serving a three-year term for auto theft, Edward H. Diller spotted a shiny yellow convertible, drove it off, 48 hours later was arrested and sentenced to a year and a day at Leavenworth, for auto theft...