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...fishing trip in the Sierra Nevadas, 60 miles north of Bishop, Calif., former President Herbert Hoover, 78, had a narrow brush with death. Billy Jenny, a 21-year-old vacationing camper, happened to wake, saw that the nearby mountain lodge was afire and rushed to shout a warning. By the time he arrived, the only escape was from the lake side of the house into a motor launch. Out on the safety of the lake, clad only in their night clothes, Hoover, his host, and other guests watched the lodge burn to the ground within ten minutes...
...last week, 25 of the abandoned babies had been found. Officers guessed that another 25 lay dead somewhere in the jungle brush. To care for the survivors, the army converted a quonset hut at Camp Murphy into a hospital. Doctors and nurses went to work to treat festering skin sores and cure malnutrition-but the marks that did not show were harder to administer to. The blare of bugles blowing reveille scared the Huklings so that they clutched at nurses in fear. The first sight of soldiers in uniform made them duck; they were so disciplined to silence that...
Died. Katharine Brush, 49, glamor-girl bestselling novelist (Young Man of Manhattan, Red-Headed Woman) of the post-World War I speakeasy era; after an operation; in Manhattan. A Boston movie critic at 17, .she was twice married, twice divorced. In the early '30s she moved into a flossy, Joseph Urban-designed Manhattan duplex apartment and settled down at a 15-ft. semicircular desk. But the Depression had left its mark on facile Writer Brush. She began to analyze her own brittle-youth-of-the-'20s stories, and her once glib pen slowed down and stalled. "When...
When the artist saw the reproduction of a sketch for Diego Rivera's new mural. The Nightmare of War and the Dream of Peace (TIME, March 17), he was angered by the symbolism that glorified Russia and derided the U.S. Translating his wrath into action, he picked up brush and palette, set to work on the painting shown here...
Surrender. In January 1951, a Philippine Army patrol in a brush with a Huk band found a blood-stained musette bag containing Pomeroy's passport and some papers in his handwriting. Last week, in rugged mountains near the border of Bulacan and Quezon Provinces, the Philippine 12th Battalion Combat team surprised a camp of 20 Huk guerrillas. Three of the Huks were killed, several of the guerrillas surrendered. Among the captured was William J. Pomeroy...