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Gustav V of Sweden, royalty's liveliest octogenarian and survivor of countless tennis matches, motoring home from a hunting trip, drove smack into a water-filled ditch, climbed out scatheless...
From the dense fields of kaoliang lining each side of the highway came a spatter of small-arms fire. With a combat-developed reflex motion, the marines sprang from their vehicles, took cover in a ditch and fired back. Mortar shells and machine-gun bullets flushed the ambushers-Chinese riflemen, some clad in loincloths, some in the bluish uniforms of Chinese Communists...
Adolph Augustus Berle Jr. had called it "close to a high-water mark in vicious finance." The Interstate Commerce Commission declared it was not in the public interest. In a last-ditch stand, Pennsylvania's Democratic Representative Francis E. Walter cried that it would cause "a scandal." Nevertheless Congress last week, in a brisk mood, passed and sent the Wheeler-Reed rail reorganization bill...
Sakamoto's ditch-wrigglers did all right. Led by the Nisei NaKama brothers, they won the A.A.U. outdoor team championships in 1939 and 1940. Sakamoto was gunning for the 1940 Olympics, but they were called off. In 1941, before war dispersed them, Sakamoto's protégés won their third outdoor A.A.U. title; and one of them, Bill Smith, son of a Honolulu cop, broke most of the world's records from 200 to 800 meters...
...monarch left his son Umberto (41) to become the fourth, and perhaps last, King of Italy. With the major political party, the Christian-Democrats, and virtually all the others, on record for a republic, Umberto II faced national elections a fortnight hence, launched an 11th-hour, last-ditch campaign to sell the people on the idea of "a renovated monarchy...