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Posted By: Julie Vognar

You are absolutely right. All his life, he was surrounded by interesting people, but he himself wasn't really very interesting, though occasionally weird.

Still, I collected all those cards, and an original photo, in which he's sitting uncomfortably on a park bench, in a suit too small for him, with lots of pomade in his hair.

And the legends! "HOF"! "The film he took in Tokyo in 1934 was absolutely essential to the Doolittle raids."
"He spoke 7 languages perfectly."
Rubbish!