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...Defiant Pennant. In 1946 Henry Gurney was appointed to the ticklish post of Chief Secretary to the embattled British mandatory government of Palestine. He called for martial law, and applied the stringent methods he had learned in the jungle to Irgun's terrorists. Then in 1948, British High Commissioner Sir Edward Gent died in an airplane crash on his way home to London to report on the rising Red menace in the jungles of Malaya. Sir Henry Gurney was ordered to Malaya. In London, the Opposition questioned his fitness for the job (he had never been to Malaya...
...vast resettlement scheme to separate the Communists from their sources of supply. His men razed whole villages for aiding the Reds and penned up 120,000-Malayan Chinese. He constantly left his snug headquarters at Kuala Lumpur to roam the jungles in his car, his official red-striped pennant a conspicuous target for snipers. He became, as he intended, a symbol of British determination and doggedness...
...team was a far cry from the great Yankee teams of the past. Only one man-Rookie Infielder Gil McDougald-was hitting over .300. But the Yankees had one supreme asset: they always expected to win, and acted that way. Giant fans seemed too emotionally exhausted by the blazing pennant finish to care much about what happened next...
While the New York Giants were busily battling the Yankees in the World Series last week, bewildered baseball fans were still trying to figure out how the Giants ever got into the series in the first place. Rated a red-hot pennant contender in spring training, once the season got under way the Giants tailspinned into an eleven-game losing streak. Giant fans wrote them off as hopeless, and cashed in an estimated $45,000 worth of season tickets; But then the Giants amazed everybody by struggling up from last place to win the pennant after all, in the hottest...
Like everyone else, moviemakers expected the Brooklyn Dodgers to win the National League pennant. In Hollywood's latest diamond ditty, the Bums not only do that, but take the World Series from their archivals, the Yankees. These wonderful but unlikely happenings are all due to an alley cat named Rhubarb...