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...Doorstep. The Communists continued to slash at the arteries of China's economic life. Red General Chen Yi dashed from Shantung Province into the river valleys of neighboring Honan. Almost before Nationalists knew he was on the move, Chen's three columns converged on Honan's capital city of Kaifeng, garrisoned by a single government regiment...
...brought a Honan delegation clamoring to the office of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. He told them: "Don't worry. Reinforcements are on the way. Kaifeng must be defended." That afternoon, the Reds breached Kaifeng's walls. The despairing Honan delegation camped for seven hours on Chiang's doorstep. They begged him to go in person to save the situation...
...Griffin, Ga., last week, a lanky high-school senior struck out his 18th batter in seven innings, and clinched the ballgame, 6-4. Pitcher Hugh Frank Radcliffe, 19, was pitching the kind of ball that had already brought major-league scouts to his doorstep. It was his fourth victory in four starts, and boosted his current season's record total to a sizzling 86 strike-outs in 33⅓ innings (an average of 2.6 strike-outs an inning). A week earlier he struck out 28 men in nine innings (the catcher couldn't handle Radcliffe's fast...
...crisscrossed the U.S., touching every state at least once, in his unprecedentedly vigorous campaign for the presidency. He lives in South St. Paul in a red brick, Tudor style, eight-room house which he built for $12,500 in 1938. A horseshoe is embedded in the cement doorstep, framing a footprint of Glen as a four-year-old. He does much of his work at home, has a Dictaphone in the library where he wrote his book, Where I Stand. For recreation he likes to hunt (pheasant, quail, deer), play chess, take Glen fishing, go for long walks alone...
...would comprise 447,000 square miles with 81 million people. It had growing armies, resources of coal, oil, and some highly developed industry. In the absence of a strong Germany, it would be Europe's most formidable power outside Russia. And it was perched on Russia's doorstep...