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...Must Take Risks." Bernadotte, a courageous and stubborn man, was not deterred by the country's temper. Last week he reported on conditions in Jerusalem. "It's like this," he said. "Both Arabs and Jews are trigger-happy. They shoot into the dark at night. They snipe by daylight. Excuse me, but it is a most idiotic thing...
...LIFE reporter and photographer, set out in a hired 1935 Ford to have a look at the war between India and Hyderabad. The Indian army had undertaken a "police action" (which it also called a "mission of mercy") against Hyderabad, whose predominantly Hindu population was ruled by a stubborn Moslem Nizam. The would-be war correspondents sped 180 miles toward the front, found that the war was over by the time they got there. All in all, it had been one of the shortest, happiest wars ever seen. Cabled Lubar...
...Capp himself is more of a writer than an illustrator. Like most comics, his strips are stories with standard scenes and characters, and liberal slices of cheesecake on the side. But the profusion of bit parts in Capp's cast-Lonesome Polecat, Fearless Fosdick, Stubborn J. Tolliver and Skelton McCloset the murdering musician-are unforgettably pictured...
Sunday Punch. For 34 years, until he quit in 1942 after a quarrel with the Astors, hawk-nosed Editor J. L. Garvin had thrust his greatness upon the Observer and thumped British breakfast tables with his stubborn leaders, often three or four columns long. "The English Sunday," said a rival, "would be incomplete without his weekly thunderstorm." When Garvin parted with the Astors, Fleet Streeters bet that the Observer would collapse. But today, a team rather than a one-man show, the Observer is a sounder paper, if a less disturbing...
...northern Greece, Communist General Markos continued his stubborn defense of his Mount Grammos stronghold, which six government divisions were attacking. Markos' men cut off part of a convoy and burned alive 16 wounded soldiers caught in it. Then he broadcast a "peace offer"-which Athens, deeming it a fake, rejected...