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...Lively Invalid. Recent Russian propaganda pictures have begun to show the Generalissimo's grey hair. In any event, a redistribution of Stalin's manifold functions may soon be in order. Even the man of steel might want a rest now that the war emergency was past. In Potsdam photographs, his familiar figure looked out of place next to homey President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee...
...Sanders) is the kind of man everybody likes and nobody quite respects-a man rendered permanently infantile by his own gentleness, by his family's standing in their small New England town, and above all by his bickering, manless sisters, the widow Hester (Moyna Macgill) and the semi-invalid Lettie (Geraldine Fitzgerald). Lettie in particular takes care that life shall never disturb him with a breath of fresh...
...story goes, his favorite concubine Yehonala sent a eunuch to the imperial death-chamber to steal the seal. Her rivals had won the dying Emperor's signature to papers granting them regency over the infant heir, but without the seal's imprint the documents were invalid. The ambitious Yehonala, better known as the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, seized the Manchu throne for herself. For 47 years she made and broke emperors at her will.* It was China's last glittering, decadent blaze of imperial glory...
...when he ran into wiry Mike Turnesa in the second round of match play, the invalid threw away his mental crutches. The veteran Turnesa was red hot. Nelson, just plain hot, was two down with four holes to go, but he was not quite ready to be counted out. Summoning his last reserve of calm (a rival pro says that if Nelson gave anyone a blood transfusion, the beneficiary would come down with pneumonia), the champ shot a birdie and took the 33rd hole. Another birdie evened the match on the 34th. An eagle 3 on the 475-yd. 35th...
...flocked to counters staffed by harried people and sweatily traded old money for new. They were joined by all U.S. servicemen and women who were not flat broke. The Finance Ministry had decreed a new paper currency issue. All old notes of 50 to 5,000 francs would be invalid after June 16. Purpose: to perk up France's drooping finances by clearing lost or destroyed bank notes off the books; to smoke out black-market and other illegal war fortunes, and hoarding; to cancel French currency still in German hands or otherwise "irregularly" held abroad...