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...Alsace one day last week, a restaurant owner publicly tore off his Legion of Honor ribbon, the French flag was flown at half-mast, army reserve officers sent in their military papers, lawyers refused to appear in court, and church bells tolled-all in protest against the verdict of a French military court 350 miles away in Bordeaux. Among the 20 former SS soldiers found guilty that morning of having taken part in the massacre of 642 men, women & children at Oradour-sur-Glane in 1944 (TIME, Jan. 26) were 14 Alsatians. Mostly youths of about 17 at the time...
Last week, obviously enjoying himself to the hilt, Storm was stacked up against 2,561 yapping, yelping dogs at the dog world's No. 1 blue-ribbon event, the Westminster Kennel Club Show at Madison Square Garden. As the defending champion, Storm received the mixture of stares and deference which is the lot of all titleholders. Most of the time Storm stayed in an uncomfortable stall in the Garden basement, loftily ignoring the people who came to look at him. In the ring, he coolly defeated all members of his own breed, then beat a batch of other dogs...
...Janeiro, winding up a 13-day, 1,200-mile sail, the 46½-ft. yawl White Mist, owned and skippered by G. W. Blunt White of Mystic, Conn., crossed the finish line first in the third annual sailing race from Buenos Aires, to win the South Atlantic Blue Ribbon. On a corrected-time, i.e., handicap, basis, two smaller Brazilian yachts, Cairu and Mistral, placed one-two ahead of White Mist...
Also pictured on the following page are other 1952 bests-of-breed, most of whom will defend their blue-ribbon titles during the two-day Westminster show. Pointing eagerly toward this year's best-in-show award is the wire-haired fox terrier, four-year-old Ch. Wyretex Wyns Traveller of Trucote, owned by Mrs. Leonard Smit. Last May it beat the Doberman and won the nation's No. 2 classic, the Morris & Essex Show at Madison, NJ. Other breed champions: Pekingese Ch. Tai Chuo Sun of Dah Wong, owned by Sara F. Hodges...
...simply listed the lady lieutenant colonel's schools (Boyles Business College, Omaha, Neb., the University of Maryland Extension in Heidelberg, Germany), her record in ten years in uniform (her present post: chief of the WAC Training Center, Fort Lee, Va.) and her medals (Commendation Ribbon, Army of Occupation WAAC; American Theater and European Theater Ribbons, World War II). The present director's comment on her successor-"wholesome, energetic and efficient" -was also regular (male generals usually refer to their successors as "fearless, brilliant and dynamic"). But it was evident, nevertheless, that WAC brass is still feminine in exercising...