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The election returns from Michigan sounded like a Kentucky Derby broadcast by Clem McCarthy. Soon after they got off, rugged ex-Governor Harry F. Kelly, who lost a leg in World War I, slipped ahead. By midevening, he was out front by 41,000 votes. By breakfast time next morning...
Last week wireless messages from In dia's Agent S. Sinha in Lhasa reported that the Tibetan capital had not yet been captured. No one could say exactly how far off the Communists were; it could be 60 to more than 200 miles. Newsmen tried to check further with...
In four days the invaders reached Ning-ching, where a Tibetan border regiment defected in what appears to have been the commissars' first tactical triumph. On Oct. 19 the combat troops "annihilated" 4,000 Tibetans at Chamdo, a citadel 400 miles east of Lhasa, Tibet's capital. From...
Ted Wright doesn't want to be like Jim. He draws his uniform, and by the end of the comic book he has acquired self-confidence, leadership, and a brunette with a Buick convertible, who hangs on his sleeve and says, "Ted, you're getting so many decorations! What are...
When the Tigers give up the ball (which is rare), the big men go to work. The most widely publicized of the defen- sive platoon is six-foot, four inch, 225 pound Holly Donan. The giant tackle gained All-Eastern honors in 1949 and is being boomed as an All...