Publisher's Synopsis
Biographical Roundup BOB HOPE: Once he couldn't hold a job in a storage warehouse; but he now holds down the job of America's favorite comedian; CAPTAIN EDDIE RICKENBACKER: He is a hero of two wars, yet he was once too shy to say "Good Morning"; JOHN BARRYMORE: He earned five thousand dollars a day, yet he searched garbage cans for food for his pet vulture; OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: At sixty he attended burlesque shows; at ninety-three he read Plato to improve his mind; JAN CHRISTIAN SMUTS: One of Great Britain's most famous leaders married a woman who refused to have children under the British flag; BERNARD BARUCH: A phrenologist advised his mother, now he advises presidents; GENERAL OMAR BRADLEY: How a shy, self-conscious boy became one of America's greatest military leaders; ADMIRAL CHESTER W. NIMITZ: He knows how to handle ships, Japs, and wives; MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK: She faced a hundred thousand hostile soldiers to save her husband; GENERAL MARK CLARK: The general who conquered Rome stood twenty-eighth from the bottom of his class at West Point; CONNIE MACK: The most famous ball club manager in America lost eight hundred games in eight years; GENERAL DWIGHT EISENHOWER: They said he would teach history; instead, he makes history for others to teach; LOWELL JACKSON THOMAS: He dictates in taxicabs and travels five thousand miles for one week of skiing; CAPTAIN EDWARD ELLSBERG: He went down to the sea in a diver's helmet and brought up a drydock; AND MORE...
