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...Britain, Winston Churchill might never have been called. It was not the fate of Britain's greatest leader to serve his people in prosperity. Six years ago, in the hour of his country's greatest triumph, his leadership had been decisively dismissed. Grateful for victory, but nursing prewar grievances against the Tories and the upper classes, a majority of the British turned away from Churchill to the brave new world of Socialism. Now that world, so hopefully launched, was waterlogged and awash. But grievances and memories die hard in class-torn Britain. Churchill, trying for office last year...
With the exception of the 1949 Stanford game, this is the first time since prewar days that the band has not accompanied the football team to an out-of-town game...
During World War II, Richard Tregaskis began to wonder "whether the paradise of our prewar existence, that we had dreamed of overseas, was so wonderful after all." While still on duty, however, he typed his way through the Coral Sea, the Solomons, Midway, North Africa, and Sicily, and gave Guadalcanal Diary and Invasion Diary to eager watchers on the home front. He covered most of the war's big battles from the front lines for newspapers all over the country. After the last island surrendered and Tregaskis ran out of his well-known war stories, he returned to find life...
...Restitution of property losses to Jews still left in West Germany (22,000 out of a prewar Reich total of 550,000) has been going on since 1947. In the U.S. and French zones, about half of the claims are settled; in the British zone the percentage of settlement is much lower...
...their blood; home-grown Anopheles mosquitoes can spread the infection. Danger zones: Georgia (237 active cases), Oklahoma (101), Kentucky (97), Colorado (65), Wisconsin (60). ¶ The A.M.A. proudly reported a total of 26,191 potential doctors enrolled in 79 U.S. medical schools last year, a 22.5% increase over prewar. <¶ Not all the heroes of the Korean war have been gun-toting combat men. Last week the Army added up some statistics, announced that 2,800 decorations had been won by its devoted medics. Among them: one Medal of Honor, nine D.S.C.s, 149 Silver Stars, 1,110 Purple Hearts...