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Died. General Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, 56, German tank expert who earned the title of "Butcher of Guernica" in the Spanish Civil War, was Rommel's onetime second-in-command of the Afrika Korps and achieved high rank on the Yugoslavs' war-criminal list for his massacres in Serbia; of a heart attack; in Söcking, Germany...
...South India's Protestants will be members of the new church. Still outside are about 100,000 Baptists (they insist on adult baptism only), 200,000 Lutherans (they demand acceptance of the Augsburg Confession), a small number of U.S. Methodists, and 200,000 members of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church. But the 1,000,000-odd members of the South India Church are a leaven of unity that is already causing ecumenical stirrings in North India, and beyond. Many clergymen hopefully expect that it will eventually spread to England, Europe...
Never intended for bobsleds, the Cresta Run is not "a downhill straightaway" [TIME, Jan. 7], but a winding, downhill and very steep course, three-quarters of a mile long, including eleven banked curves, viz: "First Bank," "Curzon," "Thoma," "Rise," "Battledore," "Shuttlecock," "Stream Corner," "Bulpett," "Scylla," "Charybdis," "The Finish." "Battledore" and "Shuttlecock" are almost S-shaped...
...Slain was monocled George Stumme, second in command to Rommel. In the midst of one melee, when a man darted from a crippled Nazi armored car, a British Hussar leaped from his tank and collared him. "I am a general," the captive said severely. He was Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, Commander of the Afrika Korps...
Last week the lean, 54-year-old Ulsterman sat down at dinner in his tent with the captive Thoma. On an oilcloth table cover he showed his rival how the battle had been won. "I told him," Montgomery reported afterward, "that I came to the desert in August. In September I met Rommel. In October I beat...