Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON EW YORK france la Is begin nning NEW nang to think she has another clemenceau in premier Da ladler and she still has marshal philippa Phllip pa petain one of tha how haul petain few survivors ot of keeps fit the great generals at 01 82 of of the world war two or three years yea rs ago general petain was wa counseling pence peace and conciliation with germany now he warns the french people of their serious sit bation in ECi europe rope land and urges them to consider realities it Is quite possible that rope skip ping is mainly accountable for general retain petain being alive trim fit and active at eighty two ile he Is an inveterate rope skipper ejected from his apartment in 1914 because he jarred the plaster from the walls this writers record as to that goes only to 1034 1934 but in that year he was still skipping g diligently joffre foch and maginot among the french von mackensen ladendorff Luden dorff and hindenburg among the germans non skippers all have passed but marshal petain lives on venerated by his countrymen it was he be who said they shall not pass on february 5 1916 to be exact ile be was the savior of verdun and in this connection a deft historian might discover that rope skip ping saved france the general spent a solid week in an without sleep and the london dally daily news comme commented anted at the time that no man who was not in perfect physical condition could have survived such ordeals it was suggested that his energy and endurance had bad turned the tide of war he was born henri philippe Phllip pe benoni omer joseph petain the son of a baker in a la tour man mountain mounta dean the wrestler running for the legislature in geor gla Is after only dean bean one seat but he h girds for will need three or ballot bout tow four if he is elect elec ed in retirement on his farm near norcross bs he still weighs pounds it Is a contest tor for him with no chance chanca for his running broad jump attack in which he hurtles his body against his opponent ills his career seems to have been mostly his cifes idea born frank leavitt in new york known as the Ill hells ells kitchen hillbilly he did a hitch in the army and thereafter engaged in some desultory wrestling and mauling as a soldier leavitt nothing much came of it and he began placidly taking on weight as a traffic trade cop in miami fla fia doris dean married him and began prodding his lagging ambition he started grappling again in bostin in 1933 with fame still elud ing hl his S half nelson doubled for when a german film star promoter took him on a tour oatha of the VII as henry rhineland this was more successful and brought him to the attention of alexandra korda who needed a double tor for charles laughton as henry VIII in the wrestling scene thus came the famous whiskers an important detail of his cifes clever showmanship in the buildup build up of the man mountain it was she who persuaded him to take thenamae the name dean and who managed the histrionics which made him a fabulous creature he ha was born in m west forty third street in a 1891 weighing 16 10 pounds f GEORGE E Q JOHNSON the slight self belt effacing bespectacled man who sent al capone to alcatraz Is devoting his ufa life to social betterment he sent he wants to make capone to cles cities less fertile alcatraz soil bo tor for crime and to that end would flush city and country children back and forth interchangeably to the benefit of each he believes and the nurture of good behavior it was as united states attorney that he deftly enmeshed capono capone in a silken spiderweb spider web of evidence laboriously gathered fathered and spun the next year her bert hoover made him it a federal judge but ho he stayed on the bench only a year and then went back to his law practice he broke the gangs in chicago ills story ot 0 how he snared capone told before tho the senate senata judiciary committee with its tales of trapdoors and secret panels was grade grada A melodrama but he make it sound that way he is a modest man with no instincts of showmanship 0 consolidated news newa rea feature tures service |