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...crucial series like this. They've never played in one before-never been important enough." The Yankees abruptly stopped their streak, 3-0. But next day, playing the Yanks again in a doubleheader, the A's bounced back. Outfielder Elmer Valo dived halfway into right-field stands like a circus acrobat to make a sensational catch. He did it again two innings later, robbing the Yankees of a sure home run-and lay unconscious for several minutes, with the ball locked in his glove, while the crowd cheered...
...Halfway House? Nevertheless, last week the urge toward European federation-or consolidation, or "Western Union," or whatever men might call the first steps toward a United States of Europe-was more vigorous than at any time since Napoleon's dream of unity-by-conquest crashed at Waterloo. Jean Boewet, looking out over Waterloo's rippling wheat, might well be skeptical. What could the statesmen show him besides the skeletons...
What would Jean Boewet say to all that? He would probably just shrug. Experts with briefcases, speeches in committees! If he had a word for it, it would doubtless be le mot de Cambronne.* And even those committees, most of them, were hardly more than at Halfway House : nobody was surrendering any national sovereignty just yet. But there was more to come. At The Hague this week, Europeans who want a United States of Europe will gather to talk it over. No government has sponsored their meeting, but hundreds of British and French publicists and politicians, including Winston Churchill, will...
...chill Andean drizzle fell as they gathered at the Quinta de Bolivar to sip champagne and then duck by turns into the Liberator's dark dining room to sign their treaties and conventions. As each delegate signed, a band in the patio struck up his national anthem. Halfway through, the electricity faltered, and Uruguay signed by the flickering light of a candelabra...
...last week, readers of Churchill's LIFE and Times were more than halfway through Vol. I. From the 225,000-word text, LIFE was printing about 50,000 words, the New York Times 93,000. Extracts are running in 80 newspapers outside the U.S. (Houghton Mifflin and Book-of-the-Month Club will publish the complete text this summer). This week, Churchill turned over to LIFE and the Times Vol. II of his memoirs, covering Britain's darkest-and finest-hours, the period that saw the fall of France and the 1940 blitz on London. This second installment...