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...nationalist" Communists who, like Tito, are for Marxism but against the way Stalin & Co. boss the show in Marxism's name. The group, calling itself Mouvement Communiste Français, was founded a month ago in the northern coal fields by one Charles Lemoine, a stocky ex-coal miner. At a rally of 400 miners, he cried: "The Communist Party, yesterday our hope, has been unconditionally handed over to Moscow . . . For this party, the interests of the French people are subordinated to the interests of the Soviet Union . . . Let's get together, all victims of Communist attack...
Died. Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, 85, Archbishop of Philadelphia and senior prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S.;* of a stroke, shortly after celebrating Mass on the 61st anniversary of his ordination as a priest; in Philadelphia. Born the fourth child of an Irish immigrant coal miner, he spent 13 scholarly years on the faculty of Philadelphia's St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, in 1903 became Bishop of Nueva Segovia in the Philippines. There he dealt with rebels and lepers, dug graves for cholera victims, paddled his canoe along jungle streams (the diocese could not afford a paddler...
...pushed doggedly forward. A grenade landed in the midst of his squad.* Hero Pittman threw himself upon the missile, smothered the blast with his body. He left a hospital to get his decoration. ¶1st Lieut. Carl H. Dodd, 26, of Company E, 5th Infantry Regiment, a coal miner's son from Kenvir, Ky. On January 30, Lieut. Dodd's platoon was pinned down near Subuk by crossfire from cleverly camouflaged machine-gun nests. Dodd alone stood up, charged the first nest singlehanded, wiped it out. The Chinese started heaving down grenades. Dodd pitched them back, hollered...
...miner in Chester-le-Street, England explained to Princess Margaret why the men had given her such a rousing reception on her inspection trip to the local rehabilitation center: "Because of your tour, we are getting extra free beer...
...shirt, wilted under Penney's persuasion: "I'm a no-good of a salesman unless I can sell you two." He did. Penney made his way around the store, sat down to fit a shy young girl with a pair of shoes (no sale), happily spotted a miner wearing Penney overalls...