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Oldtime Crooner Rudy ("The Vagabond Lover") Vallee, still crying "Heigh-ho, everybody" in the nightclubs, dropped into Port Arthur, Ont. for a one-night stand and hinted that he might not go on forever. At 52, he said, he was getting tired and thinking of retiring in a year or two to his Hollywood home. A reporter asked how old he felt. Sighed Rudy: "Like an old race horse regarding the ice wagon...
...Laniel cabinet: 1) continuing with the Navarre plan of fluid attack in the hope of finally wiping out the main resistance; 2) building up the native Vietnamese army to a point where it can take over the country's defense; 3) opening direct negotiations with Viet Minh Leader Ho Chi Minh, if he can be found...
...made transport planes and floated down on the ancient gateway town of Langson (pop. 7,400), only eleven miles south of the China border. Quickly the soldiers slipped out of their chute harness, jogged through town, and headed for the deep limestone caves where the rebel armies of Ho Chi Minh had cached war materiel. Taken by surprise, the Viet Minh garrison fled. Systematically, the French set to work destroying enough Communist supplies to equip two Red divisions. In twelve busy hours, paratroopers burned 20,000 liters of gasoline, set off 5,000 tons of ammunition and explosives. They seized...
Once there, Starobin faithfully followed the party line on Indo-China but he did clear up one point. For more than two years no Westerner has seen Ho Chi Minh, leader of the Communist forces. Wrote Starobin: "The highest points of my voyage . . . were two evenings in the company of 63-year-old Ho Chi Minh." As Starobin described him, Ho Chi Minh is "a rather tall man . . . His back is now slightly hunched, greying hair recedes from a broad forehead, and piercing eyes look out over high cheekbones. He wears the oriental wisp of a beard, and his hearty...
...Navy's deft team play, with crisscross aerial passes, won two quick goals early in the second half before Army could get moving. Final score: 10-7. Navy's jubilant players, rushing to the Severn River seawall, gave happy Coach William H. ("Dinty") Moore a hearty heave ho into the river-then exuberantly jumped in after him. Princeton's Coach Thomsen hurried to a telephone to tell his men that they were the national champions...