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Knox the Politician. As the Republicans' running mate for Alfred Landon in 1936, Frank Knox exhibited all his strength, and all his weaknesses. He knew from the start that his ticket was licked, but never admitted it. He set off on a 22,000-mile campaign tour full of thunder and adrenalin, never stopped castigating the New Deal, never lowered his voice below a victorious shout...
Among the men training the students of the Navy Indoctrination School is Chief Boatswain's Mate Donald L. Elser, who was All American full back at Notre Dame in 1935. Elser is now one of the Yard's many Naval inhabitants, and was chosen to give Navy students physical training, as many other prominent athletes are doing...
Another student, Frank French '45, asked his room-mate to awaken him at a specified hour. But he forgot for a moment that said roommate is a radio and recording expert. He remembered fast enough, though, when he heard what sounded like the bells of Big Ben ringing in his ear--an alarm clock rigged up to a powerful amplifying apparatus...
FOLIO ON FLORENCE WHITE-Will Oursler-Simon & Schuster ($2). The girl secretary of a Manhattan aircraft executive, having done time on a framed-up theft charge, is accused of killing her ex-office mate. Two keen lawyers take up cudgels for her, unearth another and very grisly murder, and by swift thinking and quick action bring the well-tangled plot to a satisfactory solution...
...midst of the biggest air-training program in history, he can look back to 1918 for experience. As Assistant Director of Military Aeronautics that year, he was boss of 30 training schools, 15,000 officers, 125,000 enlisted men. He was also a devoted follower of his old flying mate, spectacular bemedaled Billy Mitchell...