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...battle itself was the fiercest and the bloodiest of the seven-year-old IndoChina war (see below). Glaring headlines and the wrench of huge casualty figures jolted the French public. Parisians by the thousands paid visits to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, under the Arc de Triomphe, and tiny bunches of violets, bought for a few francs in honor of nameless fallen Frenchmen half a world away, were deposited alongside the big formal wreaths that are nearly always there...
...give away the offshore oil, give away Hell's Canyon dam and botch up the St. Lawrence Seaway and pretend like they'd done something great." For the matter of Communists in Government, the soft spot in the Democratic hide this election year, Harry Truman threw his fiercest strokes. By giving the impression that the list of 2,200 discharged security risks included a lot of Communists, Truman charged, "they undertook to perpetrate one of the biggest hoaxes ever attempted in American history . . . This is the Republican Administration I am talking about-not irresponsible members of Congress . . . They...
...fiercest clash came at Karatina, a village north of Nairobi. There. British police, supported by the 7th Battalion of the King's African Rifles, collided head-on with a powerful Mau Mau foray. The terrorists turned and fled, but their leader was shot in the throat. Captured alive he proved an important bag. He was Waruhiu Itote, alias "General China," the elusive desperado whose gangs have long dominated Mt. Kenya. An ex-railroad worker who was in the British army in Burma during World War II, "China"' is almost certainly...
...Sizzling & Sensational." One of the Mirror's fiercest battles was against its two afternoon competitors, Hearst's Herald & Express and the ailing Daily News. In editorials and news stories, all three papers constantly fire away (TIME, Nov. 24, 1952 et seq.) at one another. For example, in the middle of the Mirror's liquor-license series, Newsmen discovered that Mirror Movie Columnist Florabel Muir had herself sold a license in just the way Mirror had said was "sizzling and sensational." Columnist Muir promptly resigned (TIME...
Writing funny captions for the photographs must have been a tedious procedure, because very few of them are clever. A typical picture is one of a ragged little dog labeled Trixie, first and fiercest bulldog, supposedly demonstrating the dauntless spirit of the dogged Blue eleven. But the cut lines do the best with meager material, in a mock, curt, newspaper style...