Word: east
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...where James Murray, of our Los Angeles bureau, located her. A tip from Washington (about a phony name Dennis had used on a passport) was relayed (with a picture of Dennis) to TIME Inc.'s Tokyo bureau, which turned up the story of his activities in the Far East...
...schedule, shock troops jammed onto river craft and struck across in a vast envelopment on both sides of Nanking. One field army under General Chen Keng took Tikang, 80 miles southwest and upriver from the Nationalist capital. Other forces under General Chen Yi poured across 35 and 65 miles east and downriver from Nanking, snatched the river port of Chinkiang and the river fort at Kiangyin, whose big guns were silent...
...only snag in the initial Communist timetable (a 24-hour delay) was caused by two British ships caught in the Communist crossing east of Nanking (see below...
With Nanking in their clutch, the Reds struck and took east & west. Hankow, key to the middle Yangtze and the Pittsburgh of China, seemed ready to go the way of Nanking; a crack Red army from Manchuria, under General Lin Piao, was advancing hard from the north. In China's northwest, long-beleaguered Taiyuan, site of the biggest Nationalist arsenal below the Great Wall, fell before another Communist blow...
Beginner's Plum. Georgia-born Fred Hooper has been doing all right since 1923, the year he cleared a 15-mile stretch of land on contract for the Florida East Coast Railroad. Out of that shoestring venture grew a flourishing construction business. Hooper later bought a 5,038-acre farm in Alabama's "black belt" country and a long-legged quarter-horse named Royal Prince, that was unbeautiful but fast. Winning match races with this "moneymaking horse," he dented so many rich Georgia and Florida farmers that people stopped betting against...