Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week that picture was dark and doubtful. Along the east-west Lunghai Railway the government suffered its great est loss. Twenty thousand Communists under General Cheng Keng fought their way for the second time into Loyang, a major Nationalist bastion in Honan...
Toshiyo Oda is a contractor, poet and philosopher who lives in Tokyo. Recently he has become a political backer of General Douglas MacArthur. Last month, when MacArthur declared his willingness to run for the U.S. presidency if nominated, Oda painted two large signs over the two-story office of his Japan Instant Construction Co.: "We wish MacArthur for President United States...
...writing in the obscure Le Bonheur of Trois Rivières, Que., had kind words: "I am ready to believe that this young girl is a model of virtue, modesty, discretion and grace." But for Barbara Ann's clothes and capers, and for figure-skating in general, fuddy-duddy "P.B." had only scorn. Last week L'Action Catholique, official mouthpiece of Quebec's Roman Catholic archdiocese, picked up his words, gave them wide (circ. 83,000) circulation...
Blood & Baldness. Blood was also on the mind of Anthropologist C. Wesley Dupertuis of Presbyterian Hospital, New York City. He measured the blood volume of 53 medical students (by injecting dye into their veins) and compared it with their general body-build. The plump, rounded subjects (endomorphs) and the slender, delicate ones (ectomorphs) had less blood compared to weight than the mesomorphs, or husky, athletic types. Conclusion: if you have lots of muscle, you probably have lots of blood...
...been a Burns detective, a Yellowstone guide, and city editor of the Minneapolis Journal before he joined Fawcett in 1941. He was put to work editing Mechanix Illustrated, ran its circulation up from 216,000 to 440,000. Then he was handed True and told to make it a "general magazine for men." He tossed out the horror tales, switched to slick paper, went hunting for good writers (C. S. Forester, Budd Schulberg, Lucian Cary) and began paying them good prices. Last fall he sent Richard (Guadalcanal Diary) Tregaskis off to write a round-the-world diary...