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...disappointed to note a tinge of snobbery in your recent article on Marshal Tito. I believe that his rise from the son of a poor peasant to the Communist President of Yugoslavia is a story in many ways paralleling the traditional American Horatio Alger legend . . . I, therefore, rue the day when we look down upon a man for being, not a Communist dictator, but "The Peasant...
...Paris has been guilty of an immobilisme in Morocco, hoping that the new treaty with neighboring Tunisia (which gives the Arabs some hope of self-government) would in time prove a model for Morocco. Now the Lemaigre murder has shocked into silence even advocates of strong-arm repression like Marshal Juin. Action is long overdue, unless France is to see Morocco go the way of Indo-China...
...stringy (6 ft. 1½ in., 164 Ibs.) ex-caddy who just kept playing until he was good enough to become a pro at two municipal courses in his home town, Fleck had a fluid swing that walloped the ball with remarkable accuracy. When a marshal told him that Hogan was home in 287, he said, "Now I know I have a chance." He made the most of it. On the 461-yd., uphill 17th, Fleck's second shot was a bold and beautiful wood that landed 40 ft. from the pin. He just missed his putt and settled...
...main airport. As Nehru, in Gandhi cap, white churidar (trousers) and brown sherwani (coat), a red rose in his second buttonhole, stepped from the plane, 18 Russian children released a cloud of white doves and rushed forward with huge bouquets of flowers. So engulfed in flowers was Nehru that Marshal Georgy Zhukov ordered Red army guards to pass the flowers over to Indian embassy officials. Premier Bulganin came forward and introduced his Cabinet, all wearing broad-bottom trousers and broader, slap-happy grins, showmen of the new bureaucratic beatitude...
...Winthrop House have won the Ames Awards for 'outstanding qualities of leadership, self-reliance, and character." Presented at Class Day Exercises Wednesday, the awards are in memory of the Ames sons, who gave their lives in an attempt to save their father in 1935. Alexander is First Class Marshal and Bulger captained the varsity basketball team...