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...first grand victory, the Battle of Blenheim (1704). By that age "Wellington had won his last and Napoleon was dead," notes Author Rowse. To the warfare of his time-a static business of formal sieges, sedate marches and textbook battles-Churchill brought a degree of speed, flexibility and dash that horrified friends and foes. After Blenheim, he fought nine more campaigns, won nine more major battles...
...accounted for 14½ MIGs. To his annoyance, peacetime duty kept his adventures to a minimum. Last year Captain Fernandez discovered a new way to cut loose. He began to devote all his spare time to planning and practicing for the Bendix Trophy race, a 1,120-mile dash from George Air Force Base, Calif, to Will Rogers Field in Oklahoma City...
...been a professional singer for 20 years, including an eight-year stretch as vocalist with Duke Ellington, but it is only in the past year that he has caused mass ecstasy. He has a thick, almost syrupy voice with both a hint of maudlin sentimentality and a dash of satirical humor. He is a Negro and has been blind from birth. Al's blacksmith father sent him to the Arkansas School for the Blind in Little Rock, where he sang soprano until he was 17. Long before he graduated, in 1936, he had memorized every nuance...
...style that recalled a comic-strip wife wielding a rolling pin, and set another American record: 145 ft. 4½ in. Only other double Olympics qualifier: Tennessee A. & I. State University Club's tiny (108 Ibs.) Mae Faggs, 24, who finished first in the 200-meter dash, second in the 100-meter dash. Saddest woman in Washington was Stella Walsh, 45, who competed for Poland in the 1932 and '36 Olympics, once held almost every record in the book, and was eligible to try for the U.S. team, thanks to her week-old marriage to a U.S. citizen...
...courtship has all the sublety of a banzai charge. On the morning of the rodeo he drags a tousled-headed, sleepy-eyed Marilyn from her bed and into the parade; while he manhandles bulls and heifers, she cowers limply in the stands. When she makes a belated dash for freedom, he lassoes her off the Los Angeles bus and bundles her onto one bound for Montana and his isolated ranch...