People: People, Dec. 8, 1941

Frank Knox draped his office wall with a great swastika—the flag of the freighter Odenwald, captured in the South Atlantic flying United States colors.

Viscount Halifax perched atop a tank, toured a proving ground at Eddystone, Pa., clutching a gun snout for support, later whipped around the field at 40 m.p.h. inside the tank, declared the posting was a cinch.

Harold Lloyd announced some Republicans in San Francisco had asked him to run for Governor, said he would issue a statement after the first of the year.

Governor Dwight P. (for Palmer) Griswold of...

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