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...Third Field Army (about 620,000) now seems mostly stationed in North China, and especially on the strategic Shantung Peninsula. Its commander is the redoubtable Chen Yi, conqueror of Nanking and Shanghai, a warrior-poet who is now mayor of Shanghai. After V-J day, from his lair in Shantung, he kept the Nanking government cut off from its great northern cities. Rumors have reached the U.S. that Chen Yi would like to sell...
...second consecutive (third altogether)North and South open golf title. ¶ In Brisbane, Australian Tennis Champion Frank Sedgman over U.S. Champion Art Larsen, a smashing, 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 victory for the Queensland title. ¶ In Baltimore, the Greentree Stable's One Hitter, twice conqueror of Noor, over a second-rate field for the winner-take-all $15,000 Pimlico Special. ¶ In Manhattan, perennial (22 years) world Court Tennis Champion Pierre Etchebaster (TIME, Dec. 26) over Challenger Alastair Martin, U.S. and British amateur champion, in straight sets. ¶ In Buenos Aires, an Argentine basketball team over...
...Belmont Park, N.Y., Greentree Stable's lightly weighted One Hitter, twice in one week, over Mrs. Charles Howard's Irish-bred Noor, four-time conqueror of Citation and holder of three world records. Also at Belmont Park, Christopher Chenery's Hill Prince, under top weight in the 81st running of the Jerome Handicap, over a field that included King Ranch's Middleground, to clinch 1950'$ top three-year-old honors...
Under the guise of "religious articles," stores do a thriving business selling spiritualist charms. There is Attraction Incense, incense "to vibrate the powers of Lady Luck," Compelling Incense, High Conquering Incense ("Its fumes the steppingstone to the mighty conqueror condition"). Harder to find are the brujos, who cure asthma by hanging a tiny dead green frog in a bag around the neck...
...Rome last week Rodolfo Graziani, once a field marshal of Italy, stood nervously before a military court. Twitching his thin lower lip and fingering a monocle, the Fascist conqueror of Ethiopia heard a fellow officer declare him guilty of military collaboration with the Germans during World War II. The admiral and four generals who made up the court rejected Graziani's proud plea that he had simply done a soldier's duty. Graziani, they decided, had gone well beyond the call of duty when he joined Mussolini's German-supported rump government after Italy surrendered...