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...accused of jinxing the pitcher. Not only sports figures, but many other top news personalities (such as politicians, businessmen and generals) are engaged in highly competitive enterprises. They may, like Thomas Dewey, two weeks after an October 1944 cover, get knocked out of the box. They may, like Marshal Stalin after eight different cover portraits, keep right on throwing the same old curves. Win, lose, or draw, they are news...
Reported Shot: Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, 54, Soviet war hero, appointed Poland's Defense Minister in 1949. Stockholm rumors said Rokossovsky had been pinked by a Polish officer who later committed suicide. The Voice of America beamed the report to Poland, waited to see if Rokossovsky would deny it by making a public appearance...
...Finance Minister's Parliamentary Assistant Jimmy Sinclair remembers now that he did not have much hope of success when he was sent to Yugoslavia last year. His mission was to collect a debt ($226,000) owed to Canada for postwar relief. To his pleased surprise, Marshal Tito amiably agreed to pay back two-thirds of what Yugoslavia owed. He also wowed Sinclair with his coin-trick joke about Stalin...
...election campaign hardly changed in the homestretch. Most meetings were humdrum, badly attended, polite. There were only a few brawls. In Nice, Communists and Gaullists clashed in a gun fight: three Communists were wounded. In Paris, leftists and Gaullists broke up a meeting of followers of former Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain who were campaigning for his release...
...first big party for staffers from Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe was held by British Field Marshal Montgomery on the lawn before the 17th Century castle of Courances near Fontainebleau. Among the guests who sipped drinks à I'anglaise (lukewarm and weak) and chatted with the host: General & Mrs. Eisenhower...