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...mountains near Nanking, amid the wreckage of a transport plane, a charred body lay. A scrap from a woolen sweater, a bodyguard's pistols, the testimony of a grief-stricken aide identified the fire-eaten remains as those of General Tai Li, one of China's most mysterious, most respected and most dreaded men. There was no official announcement of his death. But Lieut. General Cheng Chieh-min, 47, the Government's Moscow-educated G-2 chief, was named to succeed Tai Li as head of China's secret police...
...best backhanded Soviet fashion, Stalin gave Russians their first news of the offer Ernie Bevin announced Feb. 21: to turn the 20-year Anglo-Russian friendship pact into a 50-year treaty. Stalin said that Churchill's warmongering speech made the present pact "an empty scrap of paper." He implied that he no longer considered it valid himself: "Problems of the duration of a treaty have no sense if one of the parties violates the treaty...
...Bombs & Scrap Iron. At most plants, the experts found that the bombs which had been dropped were too light for maximum destruction. Incendiaries were sprinkled only sparingly on the inviting wreckage of fuel dumps. So many bombs were duds that one bomber in six which fought its way from England to Germany and back actually delivered nothing more devastating than a load of scrap iron...
...Industry. Last week ghostly Anyox was due for new life. For $130,000 two companies had purchased the town site, the abandoned hydroelectric plant, all dockage and foreshore rights (and 25,000 tons of scrap steel tossed into the bargain). A new iron & steel industry for British Columbia would be launched...
...week for their Carnegie Hall performance. His singers ranged from white-haired Mrs. George W. Halliwell, 78, who has sung in every one of the choir's 39 Masses, to gangling Hall Drummond, 17, who sang his first Mass last week. Others: Tenor Maurice Bowker, 42, a scrap inspector in the Bethlehem Steel Co.; Miss Lillian Graves, 71, a soprano who also sings tenor and bass at rehearsals to keep busy ("She's a nut about Bach," says Jones); blind Fay Linn, who moved from Philadelphia just to sing in the choir, and learned the soprano text from...