Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best feature of this show was an obedience section which featured skill trials and mental exercises instead of canine posturing. At one point the owners left their charges alone together in the ring, ostensibly to find out if dogs know how to mind their own business. The dogs sat silently while the crowd watched expectantly. We wondered what they were thinking about...
Died. Battling Levinsky* (real name: Barney Lebrowitz), 58, onetime (1916-20) light-heavyweight boxing champion who fought 560 bouts in a 19-year ring career, once fought 41 times in 40 weeks; in Philadelphia...
...Washington the Army handed out a flamboyantly written 32,000-word report from Douglas MacArthur's headquarters -the story of a Russian spy ring in Japan before Pearl Harbor. Chief of the ring was a slick German Communist named Dr. Richard Sorge, a lady-killing, hard-drinking grandson of Karl Marx's secretary, who wormed himself into a job as press attaché on the German Embassy staff in Tokyo. He was able to warn Moscow of the German attack on Russia 33 days before it took place. In October 1941 the Japs caught him and later hanged...
...report belatedly released and why did the Army make such an occasion of it, when, after all, Sorge's prewar spy ring had worked against the Axis, not the U.S.? MacArthur's headquarters thought that it was a timely reminder of a fact which most Americans learned in the investigations of Communist spy rings in the U.S. and Canada. The most effective spies the U.S.S.R. has are apt not to be Russians, but Communists of other nationalities who are perfectly willing to work for headquarters in Moscow, without thought for the welfare of their own countries...
Died. Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, 70, British coal tycoon and onetime Secretary of State for Air (1931-35) who said in 1938: "Close cooperation with Germany will bring about lasting peace . . ." (he visited Hitler, Göring, Ribbentrop) ; of a head injury suffered four years ago in a glider crash; in Newtownards, Northern Ireland. A longtime supporter of Chamberlain until after Munich, Londonderry later campaigned for increased British air strength, won praise for having helped develop Britain's Spitfire and Hurricane fighter planes...