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...legged 16-year-old, Dotty earned a trip to Berlin for the 1936 Olympics. To the youngster, the games seemed unpleasantly charged with politics and crowded with chaperones. To make matters worse, she was nudged out of first place by Hungary's Ibodya Czak in a tie-breaking jump-off at 5 ft. 3! in. Dotty came home to her mother's little house in Mitcham and leaped through her days, kicking at high bannisters, skipping rope and playing netball, a British version of basketball. She accumulated more medals and trophies than a small-town pawnbroker...
...corroborating intelligence from top-secret sources. On the China mainland facing Quemoy, the Reds are moving into revetted positions heavy artillery of 155 mm. and up. There are some 250 observable positions along a semicircle at point-blank ranges of from 2½ to five miles. At Foochow, the jump-off point for a Matsu invasion, the buildup is also apparent...
Last week, hitting the take-offs with precision and soaring over the barriers with the grace of a Pegasus. Foxhunter & Co. topped all but one of the international competitors from Britain. Ireland. Canada and the U.S. for the Royce A. Drake Memorial Trophy. In the jump-off, with some of the bars raised to 5 ft. 3 in. (Foxhunter has cleared 7 ft.), the partners again put on a flawless performance to win cleanly...
Trumpet Charge. For six hours the French held off the Viet Minh while B-26s from Hanoi strafed the roadside. By that time the northern half of the French column was in position to counterattack. In the jump-off position was the 1st Bataillon de Marche, reckoned the finest Vietnamese unit in the French Union forces, whose tradition it is to charge to the call of a trumpet. Now, as the shrill trumpet echoed over the green jungle, the Vietnamese stormed the small hill where the Viet Minh had dug in. The fourth wave got in among the Reds with...
Last fortnight Van Fleet aimed three U.N. divisions-the U.S. 24th with Colombians attached, the South Korean 2nd and-6th-in an all-out attack on Kumsong. By last week the three converging divisions had narrowed the 22-mile jump-off front to less than eight miles, and a torrent of artillery fire had turned most of Kumsong into burning and smoking rubble. The infantrymen were so close that they could have looked down into the town, if the weather had been clear instead of thick. The Chinese had pulled out most of their men and guns. Some 800, left...