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Although Motorist Harry Truman told reporters that he was just "perking along" as he drove west with Bess after their week's New York visit, to Pennsylvania Patrolman Manley Stampler it looked more as if he were zipping along. The trooper flagged Harry down on the Pennsylvania Turnpike for cutting in front of passing cars-notably his own patrol car. "I just warned him not to do it again,'' said Stampler. "Mr. Truman promised to be more careful...
Keeping a firm grip on their squirming pug, Trooper, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor bantered merrily with newsmen aboard the S.S. United States as they prepared to sail for a summer's holiday in France. No, said the Duke, he would not see the coronation of his niece. They were on their way to Paris before slipping down to Versailles, where they are converting an old mill into a suburban hideaway...
...desperado who dominates Mt. Kenya. One Mau Mau band, 150 strong and heavily armed, last week at tacked the trading center of Kanderudu, repulsed a British patrol and seized its transport. The soldiers called for air support, and counterattacked. Result: 40 Mau Mau were killed (ten by an African trooper who kept firing his Bren gun even after one of his fingers had been shot away); the rest broke and fled...
Each year a crime which shocks some people into impassioned pleas for strengthening capital punishment laws. In Massachusetts recently the Attorney General demanded the immediate execution of a youth who shot a state trooper, and in Mexico one of the plotters of a double indemnity murder insisted that the government condemn him to death because "desperate men will do the same thing I did if they did not make an example...
...batch of 22 exchanged Britons, several sounded off against the Korean war and the U.S. last week after landing in England. Trooper Arthur Surridge of the 8th Hussars said the U.S. had started the war "to make a profit." The War Office was convinced that "the return to normal surroundings will give them a more balanced view...