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...fortnight ago, at Yenan, Nationalist General Hu Tsung-nan decided to beat the Communists to the punch. Two army divisions, under Generals Liu Kan and Yen Ming, marched south. West of Ichuan they met the Red force. Six hours later the Nationalists had suffered 20,000 casualties. Only 2,000 soldiers escaped. Both General Liu and General Yen lay dead...
Postwar statistics show that no longer does one in every thousand Ivy League students own a string of spirited mounts, but a scattered number still have a yen for polo. Last November at an Adams House parley 35 prospective players decided that the time had come to revive the game started by Teddy Roosevelt at Harvard back...
Tokyo police warned of another hazard. The black market, they said, is full of cigarettes (at 2½ yen apiece) containing a filler of horse dung. Said one cop: "Many people are smoking them, and we are surprised at how few are aware of what they are made...
...medicine man slipped into the open vault, snatched an armful of currency and disappeared. In the hospital next day the manager ruefully totted up the cost of his gullibility: twelve employees dead from cyanide, and a loss of about 50,000 yen to the Tekoku Bank. Police were hunting the man of distinction...
Everyone who had a badge, a temper and a yen for authority took part. The U.S. Olympic Committee and the International Ice Hockey Federation are supposed to pick the U.S. team jointly, but since they were backing rival teams, two teams were sent to Switzerland, neither properly accredited. At the peak of the bickering, stuff-shirted Avery Brundage, the U.S. Olympic chairman, issued a pompous communique announcing that "a great victory has been achieved . . ." but he proved to be the only one who thought so. The International Olympic Committee sided with Brundage. But the Swiss, who as hosts were...