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Youngest of Army branches is the armored force. Until last summer the Army dozed along with a single, experimental mechanized brigade, and kept this little upstart haltered in the cavalry. What additional tanks and armored vehicles the Army possessed were scattered among older services. It took Hitler's Panzer divisions to wake up the U. S. Army. The lone Seventh Brigade suddenly grew (on paper) into a full-fledged armored force. Tank-minded pioneers were given command, plus a free hand to concentrate practically all of the Army's mechanized equipment in two divisions...
...told how to retrieve his subordinates' botch of a campaign which he never approved, must have made the 68-year-old Marshal swallow hard. Last week he retired "at his own request" from the service of a Duce whom he once offered to crush as an upstart...
...received Admiral Jean Decoux, who as Governor General of Indo-China is actually his boss, to discuss the upstart claims against Cambodia by Thailand, lately Siam...
...Professional Tennis Association, staged at Chicago's Town & Tennis Club, proceeded with professional smoothness. Surviving the quarter-finals were Barnstormers Don Budge (playing in his first pro tournament), Fred Perry (1938 champion), Big Bill Tilden (winner in 1931, the year he turned pro), John Nogrady, a young upstart from Montclair, N. J. Nogrady, a teaching pro, would probably have been eliminated earlier had Barnstormer Ellsworth Vines, defending champion, been among the contestants. Vines, who had been playing golf all summer, had not entered the tournament...
California's best bet was 19-year-old Betty Hicks of Long Beach, a stick-at-it-ive little upstart who had reached the semi-finals of last year's National, had twice drubbed Champion Jameson in Florida tournaments last winter. Another favorite daughter was willowy, 21-year-old Clara Callender, who had played the Pebble Beach course since she was knee-high, was State champion at 17, recently set a new Pebble Beach record (74) for women...