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No. 2. There was one more river to cross. Seventeen men had been directly or indirectly promised the Vice-Presidency, or boosted for it, by some member of Hopkins & Co. These included: Cordell Hull, William B. Bankhead, James Byrnes. William O. Douglas, Robert H. Jackson, Louis Johnson, Henry A. Wallace...
On the basis of evidence which was at that time believed to be accurate and complete, the writer gave a brief account of Lucas, the so-called "baboon boy" of South Africa [TIME, April 1].
Since the time of the initial report, however, largely through the efforts of Dr. Dru Drury of Grahamstown, additional information has been discovered. Dr. Drury has been able to interview and to examine Lucas, and has talked with every available person who might possibly have had knowledge of the case...
Although the hearsay evidence about the boy being found by the police is still maintained, nevertheless the previous institutionalization of Lucas at the Grahamstown Mental Hospital, the distance of Grahamstown from Burghersdorp (where he was allegedly found among baboons), and the fact that there is no mention of the baboon...
- To Chicago Times' Lucas, all credit for a fine job of listening. But only Superman could out-listen CBS and Princeton, whose big Listening Post staffs are on the job as much as 19 hours a day, seven days a week. - ED.