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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chambers testified that he knew of two Communist spy rings besides his own operating in the State Department and the armed services. No officers were involved, he said, but ranking civilian officials cooperated. Once Chambers was dispatched to the West Coast with $10,000 to finance operatives there. Spies were recruited for service in Japan, Germany, France, Finland and China. Chambers helped establish the Japanese ring, heard later that at least one of. his recruits was liquidated after losing enthusiasm for his work...
...agreement sets up an International Ruhr Authority on which the six signatories and the new government of West Germany (now being constructed at Bonn) will be represented. The authority will decide what part of the Ruhr's coal, coke and steel should be kept at home for the good of Germany, and what part should be sent abroad for the good of Europe. Together with a Military Security Board (representing the U.S., Britain and France), the authority will watch what the Germans make and what they do with it, check them if they get out of hand...
...Chengchow, a rail junction for east-west and north-south traffic in Honan, two Shanghai cotton brokers reported "all was quiet." Their warehouse of cotton had been untouched by the Communists. Said a Red officer: "When the kettle belonged to Chiang, we tried to break it; now that it is ours, we want to preserve...
After a year or so of caddying, he decided to try the game himself. He scared up some old clubs and started swinging. Since left-handed clubs were hard to come by, he became a righthander. But he seemed to have little natural talent. Says Denny Lavender, West Point golf coach who grew up with Ben: "He didn't do one thing right. He couldn't putt. As a kid he practically ran at the ball...
Putts on the Rug. In 1932 he struck out for Los Angeles with $75 and big ideas about making the winter tour. A month later he was back in Fort Worth, broke. The following winter, he went west again, got as far as the Agua Caliente Open (where he won no prize money) and the Phoenix Open (where he picked up $50). He had turned in some good scores for 18 holes, but he had no consistency. It taught him one lesson: "There's no such thing as one good shot in big-time golf. They all have...