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...Publishers' Row. That he possesses the power to become invisible to finance companies; that his laboratory is tooled up to manufacture Frankenstein-type monsters on an incredible scale; and that he owns one of the rare mouths in which butter has never melted are legends treasured by every schoolboy...
Philosophic General Hsiung, who at 50 has the bland face of a schoolboy, departed with his usual smile, said only that he and Franklin Roosevelt had discussed the "Pacific situation." Was it true that he was being recalled because of dissatisfaction with United Nations cooperation and the trickle of Lend-Lease aid? The General replied tactfully: "We should never be satisfied unless our enemy is completely defeated...
...schoolboy in the Grocers Company School in Hackney Downs, London, young Gibson invented perhaps the best of all naval war games, Dover Patrol, in 1911. (It was not manufactured until he was mustered out of the British horse artillery in 1919.) In 1925 Gibson designed Aviation, an excellent air war game, and bought up the rights to a French infantry war game, L'Attaque! In 1932 he put all three together in one package as Tri-Tactics. (Gibson sold a whole set of his war games for use in the wardroom of the lost British battleship H.M.S. Hood.) Twice...
Bryan Untiedt, nationally famed schoolboy hero of 1931 (he cared for 14 schoolmates in a blizzard-bound Colorado bus, dined with President Hoover at the White House), joined the Navy in Denver as a carpenter's mate...
...surprises and the initiative were in American hands. The plans had been made long in advance. The troops had been ready, and the ships. Even as the action began, Franklin Roosevelt's voice went by short-wave transcription to the people of France and French Africa. In slow, schoolboy French (starting with the inevitable Mes Amis) he said: "We come among you to repulse the cruel invaders. . . . Have faith in our words. . . . Help us where you are able. . . . Vive la France éternelle...