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Stuart portrait of George Washington, his 31st successor, Harry Truman, took one look at the picture and said: "He hasn't got his wooden teeth." Art experts called in a dental expert with calipers to measure Washington's nose, upper lip and chin, then compared the findings with similar measurements of other Stuart portraits. His verdict: President Truman is undoubtedly right; Stuart painted this portrait with the famous dentures missing...
...arrived in Peking on 30th December . . . After five hours' delay, without food for a whole day, [we were] taken to a filthy Chinese hotel for the night. At no time were we allowed to get in touch with [H.M.'s charge d'affaires at Peking]. On 31st December, we went by train to Tientsin under escort, were placed in the Rich hotel and not allowed to leave the bedroom or talk with anyone . . . We were then put on board the S.S. Heinrich Jessen for Hong Kong...
Trappers Trapped. Three North Korean divisions - the 2nd, 9th and 31st -had moved around the right flank of the Wonju salient and were trying desperately last week to encircle the 2nd Division. Yongwol, a tungsten-mining town on the headwaters of the Han, changed hands even oftener than Wonju, and was razed by allied planes dropping napalm. R.O.K. units reported themselves "locked in combat" with the North Koreans, and 10,000 U.S. troops rushed to the scene. Finally, instead of trapping the Americans, the North Koreans were trapped themselves. Allied infantry, tanks, artillery and planes began chopping them down...
...Called up two more National Guard Infantry divisions, the 31st from Alabama and Mississippi and the new 47th from Minnesota and North Dakota, making a total of six National Guard divisions brought to active service thus...
...Oklahoma over Oklahoma A & M, 41-14, its 31st victory in a row, to join Princeton as one of the two top unbeaten, untied teams of the season and fortify the Sooners' claim to No. 1 U.S. honors...