Show WHO'S I. I YH NEWS THIS y j WEEK By LEMUEL LEMUEL F. F PARTON N NEW EW YORK France France Is beginning beginning beginning begin begin- ning to think she has another In Premier and she still has hns Marshal Philippe Petain one of the How Petain few survivors of I Keeps Fit the great generals at aj 82 of the World war Two or three years ago General Petain was counseling peace and conciliation with Germany Germany- Now he warns the French people of their serious situation situation situation sit sit- In Europe and urges them to consider realities It Is quite possible that skip rope ping Is mainly accountable for General General General Gen Gen- eral Petain being alive trim fit and active at eighty He isan is isan isan an Inveterate skipper rope-skipper ejected from his apartment in 1914 becaUse because because be be- caUse cause he jarred the plaster from the walls This writers writer's s record as to that goes only to 1934 but In that year he was still skipping diligent diligent- ly Joffre Foch and Maginot among the French Von Mackensen and Hindenburg among the Germans skippers non skippers non all all all- have passed but Marshal l Petain lives on venerated by his country country- men It was he who said They shall not pass pass on on February 5 1916 to be exact He Lie was the savior of Verdun and In this connection a deft historian might discover that skip rope-skip- ping saved France The general general general gen gen- eral spent a solid soUd week in an without sleep and the London Daily News commented at the time that no noman noman noman man who was not In perfect physical condition could have survived such ordeals It was suggested that his Ws energy and endurance had turned the tide of ot war He was born Henri Philippe Benoni Benoni Benoni Be- Be noni Omer Orner Joseph Petain the son of a baker in Cauchy a la Tour 0 Man Mountain Dean the wrestler running for the legislature in Georgia Georgia Geor- Geor gia gla is after only Dean n one sea seat scat but he Girds for will need three or Ballot Bout four i if he hc is s elect elect- ed In retirement on his farm near Norcross he ho still weighs pounds It Is a unique contest for him with no chance for his running jump broad-jump attack In which he hurtles his body against his opponent His Bis career seems to have bave been mostly his wife's Idea Born Frank Leavitt in New York known as the Hells Kitchen Hillbilly he did a hitch In the army and thereafter engaged In some desultory wrestling and mauling manling as a Soldier Leavitt Nothing much came of It and he began placidly taking on weight as traffic cop In Miami Fla Doris Dean married him and began prodding his lagging ambition He started grappling again in Bostin in 1933 with fame still eluding eluding elud- elud ing his nelson hall Doubled r LI j for when a German Film Star promoter took him himas himas himas as Henry VIII on n a tour of the Rhineland This I was more successful and brought him to the attention of Alexandre Korda who needed a double for Charles Laughton as Henry VIII in inthe inthe inthe the wrestling scene Thus came the famous whiskers an important detail detail de de- de- de tail tall of his wife's clever showmanship showmanship showman showman- ship in the buildup build of the Man Mountain It was she who persuaded ed him to take the name Dean and who managed the histrionics which made him a fabulous creature He was born in West third Forty-third street In 1891 weighing pounds G GEORGE GEORGE EORGE E. E Q JOHNSON the thes s slight ht self effacing bespectacled bespectacled bespectacled man who sent Al AI Capone to Alcatraz is devoting his life to social social social so- so cial betterment He Sent He wants to make Capone to cities less fertile Alcatraz soil ta for frim frimand crime and to that end would flush city and country children children children chil chil- dren back and forth interchangeably interchange interchange- ably to the benefit of each he believes believes believes be be- and the nurture of good be be- havior It was vas as United States attorney attorney attorney at at- torney that he deftly enmeshed Capone Capono in a silken web spider-web of evidence laboriously gathered and spun The next year Berbert Herbert Herbert Her Her- bert Hoover made him a federal judge but bo ho stayed on the bench only a year and then went back to his law practice He broke the gangs in Chicago His story of how he snared Capone told before the senate judiciary committee with its tales of trapdoors trapdoors trapdoors trap trap- doors and secret panels was Grade A melodrama but he didn't make it sound that way He Hc Is a modest m man m with no instincts of showman showman- ship 2 Consolidated ted News Fe Features Service |