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Foils: Vera won 2, lost 1; Frankmann 2-1; Sollee 0-3. Saber; Carter 3-0; Gay 1-2, Levine 0-3. Epee Overholser 2-1, Morton 1/2-2 1/2, Smith...
Four men from last year's squad are leading the 1950 team--Captain Ray Frankmann and Joe Vera in the foils, and John Gay and Forrest Carter in the sabers. Eric Solice and Chris Martin of last year's once-beaten freshman team are the two other foils men, while Ray Pierce and Jay Levine complete the saber team. Joe Overhoiser, Byron Morton and John Smith comprise the epee squad...
...Reds keep telling the West Germans that they would be better off united with their Eastern brothers. Communist agents whisper into the eager ear of discontent: "Just wait until we come." A heavy rattling of the Russian saber last week reinforced that whisper. Moscow, it was reported, was sending Marshal Ivan S. Konev, one of Russia's top military men, to head its Eastern zone army...
...courtroom microphone. As he talked, listeners recalled last May Day when General Palffy, resplendent in dress uniform and riding a white horse, reviewed his troops in Hero's Square. "Good morning, comrades," Palffy had shouted. A thousand voices answered "Good morning, Comrade General." Palffy had drawn his saber to salute the flag. The saber slipped out of his hand, clattered to the ground...
...Washington, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson noted that the Moscow Peace Conference seemed out of tune with Russia's warlike threats against Yugoslavia (see above). "Of course, they will try to make out that this saber rattling is really the cooing of the dove," he explained, "but the dove seems to have a somewhat sore throat...