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...assignment, after commanding the 1st Marine Division with distinction for seven bloody and glorious months in Korea (TIME, Sept. 25). The 1st's new boss was another fighter of the same "old breed": Major General Gerald C. Thomas, 56, who enlisted in the Corps in 1917, won a battlefield commission during World...
...Tory battler, Winston Churchill, was watching fierce-eyed for a chance to hit the Labor government with a knockout blow. He canceled a scheduled address at the University of Pennsylvania this week because he did not want to leave the battlefield at a crucial moment. In London, before the Primrose League (a Conservative Party offshoot which sponsors social and welfare activities), Churchill last week turned his old phrasemaking genius on Attlee & Co. Most striking Churchillisms: "Mr. Attlee [leads] that cluster of lionhearted limpets, a new phenomenon in our natural history . . . who are united by their desire to hold...
Taylor opposed an invasion of Manchuria and the bombing of Chinese mainland supply bases, as advocated by MacArthur. Such action, he declared, would gradually involve us in a full scale was with "the wrong enemy on the wrong battlefield...
...Battlefield, last year's money-winning-est two-year-old, had already been declared out of the Derby. ROUGH 'N TUMBLE, the California champion, was on the shelf with splints. Greentree's well-liked BIG STRETCH had been publicly embarrassed in a Keeneland prep when an upstart named RUHE gave him a three-length beating. Out in Nevada, some legalized handbook players were still contemplating the 30-to-1 odds offered against the chances of BILL BAILEY, a horse that died last month in Hot Springs, Arkansas...
...With Battlefield and Big Stretch unwilling to try again against the horse that had beaten them in a six-furlong conditioner five days before, the Colando colt seemed to be a cinch. But the mile-and-a-sixteenth Experimental was an entirely different matter. Starting in the outside post position, and carrying top weight of 126 Ibs., he never made it a race. Uncle Miltie finished eighth, five lengths (i.e., 4½ & a nose & a head) behind the winner, King Ranch's Sonic, which carried only a feathery 105 Ibs. The time...