Show THIS EE by LEMUEL F PARTON nning NEW EW YORK france is beginning to think she has another Clemen clemenceau cea in premier deladier Da ladier and she still has marshal philippo philippe petain one of the how petain few survivors of keeps fit the great generals at 82 ay ot of the world war two or three years ago general petain was counseling peace and conciliation with germany now he warns the tha french people ot of their serious situation in europe and urges them to consider realities it is quite possible that rope skip ping Is mainly accountable for or general petain being alive trim fit and active at eighty two he 1 is an inveterate rope skipper elected ejected from his apartment in 1914 because he jarred the plaster from the walls alls this writers record as to that goes only to 1934 but in that year he was still skipping diligently joffre foch and maginot among the french von mackensen ladendorff Luden dorff and hindenburg among amone the germans non skippers all h have ave passed p assed but marshal petain lives on venerated by his countrymen it was ho he who said they shall not pass on february 5 1916 to be exact lie ile was thi 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 an and d the london daily news commented at the time that no man who was not in perfect physical condition could have survived such ordeals it was suggested that h his energy eberg y a and I 1 isnec endurance had tu turned the IN v of war 7 he was born henri philippe benord omer joseph petain the son ot of a baker in a la tour man ilan mountain dean the wrestler running for the legislature in georgia is after only dean one seat but he G girds ird 9 for will need three or ballot bout tow four if he hels Is elect ed in retirement on his farm near norcross he still weighs pounds it Is a unique contest tor for him with no chance for his running broad jump attack in which he hurtles his body against his opponent a his career seems to have been mostly his cifes idea born frank frank leavitt in new york known as the Il 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 be began placidly taking on weight as traffic raffle cop in miami fla fia doris dean married him and began prodding his bis lagging am ambition he started grappling again in bostin in 1933 with fame still eluding his half nelson doubled for when a german film star promoter took him on a tour of the as a henry ivin rhineland this was more successful and brought him to the attention of alexandre alexandra korda who needed a double for charles laughton as henry vill VIII in the wrestling scene thus came the famous amous whiskers an important detail of his cifes clever showmanship in the buildup build up of the man ilan mountain it was she who persuaded him to take the name dean and who managed the histrionics which made him a fabulous creature he was born in west forty third street in 1891 1991 weighing 16 pounds EORGE E Q JOHNSON the Gs GEORGE gaslight slight light self effacing bespectacled man who sent at al capone to alcatraz is devoting his life to social betterment he sent ile he wants to make capone to cities less fertile m soil tor for crime alcatraz and to would flush bush cit city and country xa 1 dren back and forth intern N ge ably to the benefit ot of each he believes and the nurture of good behavior it was as united states attorney that he deftly enmeshed capone in a silken spiderweb spider web of evidence laboriously gathered and spun the next net year herbert hoover made him a federal judge but lie he stayed oo on the he 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 and secret panels was grade grad A melodrama but he make il sound that way ile he is a modes man with no instincts of showmanship a consolidated news features f service |