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youtube.comFrank Donovan, a lifetime close friend and a lawyer from Detroit. He was known among his friends and clients as a brilliant legal analyst with a nonaggressive temperament. No litigator. When we were both twenty, I remember him saying: "When there's a fight, I pick up my hat and go home." He had a large head, somewhat out of proportion to
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youtube.comWild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage (A True Story of a WWII Spy)
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Don Michael, a one-armed pianist who played and recorded with Erskine Hawkins in the mid-1940s.
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While this last was an overstatement and probably a rumor that Donovan himself had spread, it was not far from the mark. Twenty-two years earlier, when presented the Medal of Honor for actions on the Western Front at an award ceremony in the New York City Armory, Donovan had melodramatically unclasped the strap, then re-presented it to the four tho
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