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...field chief was Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, commanding the divisions along the French frontier. Crown Prince Umberto commanded an Army facing toward Yugoslavia where danger seemed small indeed this week. Commanding a southern defense corps headquartered in Sicily was Marshal Emilio De Bono, a white-bearded little Fascist oldster who planned and provoked the Ethiopian War, then botched it. Commanding in Libya was that "accomplished ruffian," Air Marshal Italo Balbo, Libya's Governor...
...with a breathtaking final-round 68. Ten years later, at Fresh Meadow, Sarazen won the National Open again-playing the last 18 holes in 66. Last week, on the eve of the 44th U. S. Open, held on Cleveland's dog-tiring, wind-tricky Canterbury links, 38-year Oldster Sarazen, preparing to tee off in his 21st Open, made another prediction; no golfer over 35 will ever win the Open...
...well as the gallery's surprise, he soon learned that Gene Sarazen, another veteran of British tournaments, was in the groove too. Nonchalantly plodding along on his piano legs, still wearing outmoded plus fours and using a 40-year-old putter, Oldster Sarazen, who was four strokes behind Little at the halfway mark, needed a two-under-par 34 on the last nine to catch Little...
...that set them buzzing was neither an editor nor a priest, but a diminutive oldster (66) named Theodore Francis MacManus, big automobile adman (retired), longtime friend of Walter P. Chrysler, great & good friend of the late Pope Pius XI, who honored him with two knighthoods...
...Times had never been worse than they were last week when the legendary defender of France, firm and erect at 83, returned from his Ambassadorship to Spain to become Vice Premier in Paul Reynaud's Cabinet. "He will remain until final victory," announced M. Reynaud. The white-mustached oldster was to act as special military counselor to the Premier...