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Five Shots to Go. By last week, police thought they knew who the killer was. They recalled an incident that had occurred four days before Whitsunday in a small native village-a quarrel between a corporal in the native auxiliary troops and an ex-trooper named Amou N'Talit Tademalit, a Berber tribesman who, some said, was in love with the corporal's wife. Whatever the cause, the corporal had decided to show his contempt for Amou by treating him like a servant. Riding proudly up to his house that day, he had flung his reins...
...could frighten an inexperienced freshman more than old Jess with his swearing like a trooper, even at Miss Dillon. He could also point out to them that only two freshmen crews have ever won the big race, in 1947 and last year...
...Started Running." At first the cavalrymen offered no organized resistance. Said one trooper: "I couldn't see anything until a tank came along. I climbed on and fell off three times or was pulled off by others trying to get on. Then the tank burst into flames and we all started running." Most of the men who escaped the confused, swirling battle swam the icy Kuryong River, fled to Ipsok, a village nine miles south of Unsan...
...Communists seized copies of Le Figaro from Paris newsstands and burned them. Last month the morning paper had to barricade its doors and windows as 1,500 Communists rioted outside. They had made the most of the opportunity to protest against publication of the memoirs of Nazi Storm Trooper Otto ("Scarface") Skorzeny, who led the paratroop raid to release Mussolini...
Four and a half years in North Africa with the Horsed Cavalry, first as a trooper and later as a major, accounted for Mr. Devlin's war years. Since that time, he has done some Shakespeare with the Old Vic: Macbeth, Richard III, and King John... ("my voice limits me to the non-lyrical roles primarily."), and appeared in Walt Disney's all-human "Treasure Island," as yet unreleased...