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Tall, temperate General Dusan Simovich saw that his nation had reached a decisive hour. In March 1941 he had led Yugoslavia in the historic, hopeless revolt against Nazi domination. Now, from exile in London, he broke a long silence, urged his factious countrymen to unite under the Liberation banner of fighting Marshal Tito. Exhorted Dusan Simovich...
...doubts are there. U.S. voters as yet-although June would be the proper time-were certainly not sold on any one Republican candidate as the obvious and unquestionable Man of the Hour. They were slipping away from Franklin Roosevelt, but they had not yet collected under any one Republican banner...
Igor Stravinsky conducted his own dissonant version of The Star-Spangled Banner at a highly successful Boston Symphony Orchestra concert. Of the anthem, the Associated Press discreetly noted that the audience's "reaction indicated clearly that the Stravinsky arrangement never would take the place of the more familiar version." But Boston Police Commissioner Thomas F. Sullivan said that the composer would not be fined the statutory $100 for breaking the Massachusetts law forbidding any & all tinkering with the Banner...
...last week crowds packed the Palace of Physical Culture to watch a squat, shave-headed slugger named Nikolai Korolev outpoint the Red Army's Ivan Ganykin in four rounds to become "absolute champion of Moscow." Korolev weighed 198 lb., Ganykin 156. Member of the Order of the Red Banner (for his guerrilla fighting behind Nazi lines), Korolev boasts of his letters from Joe Louis...
...Soviet banner, the people's banner...