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...British" captured Von Rundstedt at Bad Tölz. General Von Rundstedt was captured at Bad Tölz, somewhat dramatically, by 2nd Lieut. Joseph E. Burke of St. Petersburg, Fla., then a platoon leader in the 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th ("Texas") Infantry Division . . . JOHN F. MORGAN Canton, Ohio...
Conscious of the debt she owes the music-loving patrons who took her out of a secretary's chair in Canton, Ohio and paid for her musical training, Thebom has set up a fund to help other singers on their way. Before she passes out any cash, she tries to make sure of one thing: the aspiring singers must be as indomitably set on success as Blanche...
...Karl Lott Rankin, 54, chargé d'affaires in Taipei, Formosa, to be Ambassador to Nationalist China. A seasoned diplomat (Prague, Athens, Vienna, Belgrade, Brussels, Cairo, Canton, Hong Kong and other posts), Rankin has been Ambassador to China in all but name since August 1950, when he took over for ailing Ambassador J. Leighton Stuart...
...makes the trip in 12| hours, cutting almost six hours from the flight time of C.P.A.'s DC-45. In Honolulu, once C.P.A.'s jet liners are in service, the DC-6B passengers can transfer to the Comets for Sydney. Australia, with stops at Canton, Fiji and Auckland; the Vancouver-Sydney trip, which now takes 50 hours, will be cut to 27½ hours...
Expert Help. Most revealing of the tributes was a speech by China's No. 2 labor boss, Lui Ning-i, listing some-doubtless not all-of the Chinese projects on which Russian experts have been working: the Peking-Hankow, Canton-Hankow, Chengtu-Chungking and Tienshui-Lanchow railways; the Huai River conservation plan (employing some 5,000,000 workers, many of them slave laborers); the Chinkiang water detention basin, the new Tangku harbor in Tientsin. According to best estimates, there are 60,000 Russians "helping out" in China...