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...nickname was "Strafer." Built like a horse, at 44 one of the youngest officers to hold his rank, he commanded the British 13th Corps in Libya. His full name and title: Lieut. General William Henry Ewart Gott, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C. World War I veterans who remembered the Germans' Gott strafe England gave him the nickname...
There were 17,000 punters at Winnipeg's Polo Park one afternoon last week. But when the bugle called six of Canada's classiest three-year-olds to the post for the 13th running of the Canadian Derby, there was nobody at the pari-mutuel windows. Reason: touted Ten to Ace, shipped west from Toronto, was so overwhelmingly favored that track officials had declared the race a "no-betting" affair...
Pomp, Not Panic. Although Hitler is supposed to have boasted that the Germans will be in Alexandria by July 8 and in Cairo by the 13th, there are practically no signs of evacuation or panic. The American Embassy and Military Mission Headquarters function with the same cool efficiency which characterized them when the enemy was well on the other side of Tobruk...
Buddhism, which originated in India in the 5th Century B.C., had spread all over the East but practically disappeared from its homeland by the 13th Century A.D.The Buddhist ascendancy mellowed Indian sculpture into a less sensuous character. Instead of the bulbous breasts, swivel hips, wasp waists and whirling, multiple arms of Hinduism's gods, the Buddha had a repose of form and peace of countenance somewhat like that of the greatest Greek sculpture...
...just lucky," drawls Bonham, who was born in 1913, the 13th child of a California wheat rancher. "Anyone could win with the Yankees behind him." Skillful Tiny Bonham will need luck to bear out his fans' predictions that he may win 30 games this season...