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...Assistant Commander of the Kiev Military Area under General lona Emmanuilovich Yakir, who was shortly to be executed. In 1937 Timoshenko became Commander of the North Caucasus Military Area, succeeding General N. D. Kashirin, who was shortly to be executed. Later in the year Timoshenko became Commander of the Kharkov Military Area, succeeding General L. Dubovoy, who already had been executed. In 1938 General Timoshenko returned to the Kiev Area as full commander. While in this post, in the autumn of 1939, he directed the Red Army's occupation of eastern Poland...
Scottish-born Dorothy lona Campbell Hurd Howe, 57-year-old wife of a Princeton, N. J. banker, is the only woman who ever won the world's four major female golf championships: Scottish, British, Canadian, U. S. Two years ago, when twice-married Mrs. Howe joined the U. S. Women's Senior Golf Association, she ran away with the national Senior championship too. Last year Mrs. Howe successfully staved off all challengers...
...reforging of links between Church and Community. Example: the lona Community, a group of young Scottish Presbyterians living on the holy isle of lona off the west coast of Scotland, whence St. Columba first brought Christianity to Scotland in 563. Declares the Community: "Never again is the Church going to dominate education or physical fitness or social life or the care of the poor; we have Christianized society sufficiently for it [society] to take over these functions. But it is still our work to permeate them, influence them and direct them...
...offensive against Catalonia temporarily slowed down last week. At week's end the red-&-gold Insurgent flag flew over two sizable new bulges of terri tory totaling about 750 square miles. If Insurgent troops pierce another 16 miles into Catalonia to take Artesa, then Barce lona, the Loyalist capital, will be seriously threatened...
Setting records is nothing new for Mrs. Howe. As Dorothy lona Campbell, she won the U. S. women's golf championship in 1909, the year she came to the U. S. from her native Scotland. As Dorothy Campbell Hurd (after marrying Clubman Jack V. Hurd of Pittsburgh), she established the greatest record of any woman golfer in the world: three Scottish championships, two British championships, three U. S. championships, three Canadian championships, and winner of an average of 20 tournaments a year since she won her first prize in 1895. Now married to a Princeton banker, Dorothy lona Campbell...