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...China News Agency in Hong Kong and rated one of the Communists' top agents by Hong Kong police, and Shih Chih-ang, No. 2 man of Peking's chief foreign purchasing agency. Among other passengers, five listed as Chinese newsmen were actually (according to Western intelligence) unsung but important Communist propaganda and intelligence agents. The plane took off. A few hours later, it crashed into the South China Sea 250 miles east of Singapore. Without waiting for details, India's Prime Minister Nehru dispatched a message of concern to Peking: "This disaster has some very unusual features...
Both these books tell of adventure on the China coast, as anti-Communists go ashore to fight or foil China's new masters. One book is fiction, the other nonfiction, but both are based on long and firsthand experience of China's tragedy. Both books celebrate the unsung Asians who continue fighting Communism long after Western statesmen have put them down on the Red side of the world ledger...
...were holding down a quiet corner table at the Boston Tobacco Club's annual sports night. Cigarette, cigar, and candy distributors from Eastern Massachusetts had gathered to present their annual "unsung hero" award to the Crimson's Frank White. White, you will no doubt recall, is the young man who hipped a left-handed pass to Bob Cochran to win the most recent Yale game...
Frank White, the varsity wingback whose left-handed pass to Bob Cochran won the Yale game, has been named "New England College Football's Unsung Hero of 1954" by the Boston Tobacco Table. The award is given to the player "who best shows unselfish devotion to his school and fellow players...
Three weeks ago football's little men completed their 21st organized season when Princeton edged Rutgers for the crown of the Eastern Intercollegiate 150-Pound Football League. While big-time All-Americans and local unsung heroes monopolized the Cambridge scene, this victory went largely unnoticed, particularly since the Crimson had given up lightweight football over 20 years...