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...hands: in the Caucasus against the Bolsheviks in 1919, in Palestine in 1935, at Dunkirk in 1940. In 1942 Gerald Templer became the youngest general in the British army, and probably the only one who was ever wounded by a grand piano. On Anzio Beach a truck loaded with loot ran into his jeep and dropped its biggest prize on the general's neck. The mishap put him in the hospital for weeks and out of active fighting for good, but Templer soon talked his way into other jobs just as suited to his toughness...
...proved again that on home territory he knows very well what the Communists are up to. Visiting Hyderabad's Communist-dominated Warangal district, he spoke under great flower-draped portraits of himself and Gandhi, telling cheering crowds that the Communists "are a party of murder, arson and loot, not of progress." Nehru plainly considered Hyderabad a crucial test in schooling his people in democracy...
...family stoke the safe with $300. "Given money, wheedled money, is always back to wheedle again," Pa muses. "With taken money it's a different story; it goes and stays." That night, as the rest huddle sadly near an upstairs window, Davie skedaddles with the loot, goes "to make his million, down the black road...
After more than two weeks of fruitless investigation, Cambridge police have not uncovered a single trace of $1,824 worth of coats and accessories stolen from three House dining halls the night of the Brown game. The police doubt that they will discover the loot, unless by chance the thieves attempt to do some pawning...
Proceeds from the auction will be given to the student Grant-In-Aid fund, chairman Elizabeth Tucker '52 has announced. All absent-minded students have been reminded to look over the loot to claim their articles before sales begin...