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Last week Tito took the wraps off some of his 300,000 troops, and the jest proved just a jest. In Ljubljana gap, the mountain corridor leading from the Hungarian plains to Zagreb, Rijeka and Trieste, a group of military observers and reporters from six NATO nations watched while 65,000 Yugoslavs maneuvered. Spruce and high-spirited, they were divided into an "aggressor" force and a defending force covering Zagreb. They maneuvered with Sherman tanks, trucks, jeeps, 90-mm. guns, U.S.-made F47 fighters (World War II's Thunderbolts) and British Mosquitoes, and they handled them with facility...
...back to Captain Smith and the lie to his detractors. In the past, critics of Smith have only had to point to his autobiographical book of True Travels, a tangle of yarns as wild and incredible as any medieval romance. Author Smith offers strong evidence, culled from 17th century Hungarian records by his associate, Dr. Laura Polanyi Striker, that even the tallest of John's tales were probably true, and that he was, in fact, not just in fancy, one of the greatest of the Elizabethan adventurers...
...Protestant. Born the son of "a poore tenant" in Lincolnshire, Smith struck off at 20 for the Hungarian wars, where the Turks and the Habsburgs were battling for Transylvania. On the way, he said, he was robbed by some French companions, saved from starvation by a kind farmer, thrown overboard by some Roman Catholics on a pilgrim ship because he was a Protestant, picked up by friendly privateers, whom he joined in an attack on a Venetian argosy that made him, in one swoop, a well...
...Turkish commander to single combat. At the first charge, Smith's lance, he says, "passed the Turke throw the sight of his Beaver, face, head and all, that he fell dead to the ground." Whereupon Smith cut off the fellow's head and presented it to the Hungarian commander, "who kindly accepted it." Smith says he made the same disposition of two other Turks who sallied out to avenge their chief, and in consequence got a coat of arms from the Prince of Hungary-and Author Smith, on the evidence, is inclined to believe...
...best man at the 1947 wedding of Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, arrived back in England after an Italian holiday with Hungarian-born Cinemactress Eva Bartok (real name: Eva Szoke). Meanwhile, in Manhattan, the marchioness (the former Romaine Dahlgren Pierce ["Toodie"] Simpson, a Boston-bred divorcee) took legal steps leading to a divorce or separation suit. London reporters asked the marquess for comment on his wife's action, but it was too "difficult" for him to explain. As for Actress Bartok, he had met her a year ago, and "we . . . have been friendly ever since. That...