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...throttle-busting flyer, Quesada won his wings in 1925, studied engineering, learned to pilot every plane from wasplike pursuits to lumbering amphibians. At the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., he concluded from a year's study that close air support of ground troops is the key to modern...
...Reporter Bob Beason went into the water and waded and swam from building to building to assess damage. Reporter Bill Blair and Photographer Bob Youker persuaded a passing Army amphibious truck to ferry them about, were arrested for their enterprise; their soldier-chauffeur and truck were AWOL from Fort Leavenworth...
Wilson's heavily documented official report-a dry, two-volume affair-has long been gathering dust. His unofficial report, My Six Convicts, is a different matter. Based simply on reminiscences of his Fort Leavenworth days and his six assistants, it is a Book-of-the-Month Club selection for February and, as it happens, one of the liveliest inside jobs on prison manners & morals to appear in many a year. Author Wilson occasionally seems to be writing sequences for a B movie; sometimes he lectures verbosely in psychologist's lingo. But most of the time he keeps...
Psychologist Wilson, now a professor at Los Angeles State College, sees no grave faults with the liberties allowed prisoners in his day at Fort Leavenworth. Drug addicts, he feels, are not so much criminals as neurotics who belong in hospitals. He writes of his cons with affection, and it is plain that he won theirs. When his assignment ended, they tried to offer him a choice of profitable jobs through their underworld connections. In his garage, a few days before he left, he found a brand-new car in place of his wobbly old one. When he refused it with...
...Fort Leavenworth (not to be confused with the larger prison at Leavenworth, Kans., two miles away) was returned to the U.S. Army for use as a military prison. Narcotics addicts are now sent to Public Health Service hospitals at Fort Worth and Lexington...