Far-darting Eleanor Roosevelt was in California last week. “I see no reason for our entering the war—as yet,” she said in Los Angeles. “How unnecessary,” she wrote (in My Day) of a headlined demand ...

Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker came from Yoakum, Tex. The son of a Methodist minister, he studied at minuscule Southwestern University, spent a few months in the army as a telegraph operator on the ...