While vacationing in Michigan, Mayor John H. Levi of Miami Beach, Fla., was laid low with neuritis, appealed to a clinic. Prescription: go to Miami Beach and lie in the sun.
The unhappy ending to a 20-year-old story was written when a 13-man military court found World War I's slickest draft-dodger, pudgy Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, guilty of wartime desertion, sent him back to his Army cell on Governor's Island in New York Bay. Vainly had Bergdoll tried to invoke the statute of limitations as a peacetime fugitive by testifying that, while everybody thought he...
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