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...sticking our chin out but we're right. A champ's gotta fight." Added Chief Commissioner Col. Harvey L. Miller: "O.K., the kid runs away from the Army. But then he paid his debt to the country. He serves ten months in the Fort Leavenworth disciplinary barracks...
Lesson. In Leavenworth, Kans., a neighbor finally came to the rescue of Mrs. 0.P. Anderson, 85, who had climbed 20 ft. up a tree to pick pears, got stuck there for two hours...
...sometimes as little as $25-fighting in preliminary bouts. It took the Army a while to catch up with Rocky, perhaps because it was looking for a man named Rocco Barbella (his real name). Caught and court-martialed, Rocky was sentenced to twelve months' hard labor at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and dishonorably discharged. His manager insists that the dishonorable discharge was "suspended" because Rocky behaved so well in jail...
Rocky had in fact never made a secret of his imprisonment at Fort Leavenworth. He said darkly: "There were a lot of other fighters in there you'd know...
...Good Clay. Born in Seattle, Ward went to work at four, left home at 17 to become a sailor, later drove a dogsled and mined gold in Alaska, fought with Pancho Villa in Mexico. In 1920, he found himself in Leavenworth Prison for violating the narcotics law. There his cellmate was Herbert Huse Bigelow (in for income-tax evasion), president of B & B. Bigelow liked Ward, told him: "I'm going to remold you; you're made of good clay." When Bigelow was released eight months later, he asked Ward what job he would like with the company...