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October. With Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek remaining in Chungking, the principal actor in the field is General Ho Ying-chin, commander of all Chinese field forces. U.S. Major General Robert B. McClure, who is in charge of the training program of the Chinese divisions, gave Ho full marks for cooperation and knowledge of his job. "Ho's right on the ball," said General McClure this week, clasping him around the shoulders in a gesture more understandable to Chinese-speaking Ho than McClure's American idiom...
...shek's army were all over the place. Only a few companies of Lung's troops did any shooting, and the Dragon never had a chance. On the fourth day Premier T. V. Soong flew down from Chungking. He and the Chinese commander in chief, General Ho Ying-chin, had a morning conference with General Lung, that afternoon escorted the amiable old scoundrel by air to Chungking. General Lu Han, Lung's former aide, took over the Yunnan government for the Generalissimo...
Recently, France's good friend, Annamite Emperor Bao Dai (a topflight ping-pong player), formed a government of Viet Minh leaders who promptly ousted Bao Dai. New ruler of Annam, Tonkin and Cochin China was cagy, tuberculous Russian-speaking Premier Ho Chin Minh (known a generation ago around the Paris Peace Conference as Nguyen-Ai-Quoc). Followers of Communist Ho Chin Minh insulted and cowed the French in Saigon, tore down the World War I memorial, flung earth from the Verdun battlefield into the Saigon River...
...necktie, complained that Cab had yanked him off his piano stool and slapped him around "for no reason at all." Cab, also in a black-&-white-checked suit with a red-white-&-blue bow tie, said that Claude had made the first pass. The Man with the Hi-de-Ho was held for assault...
...less politely, to a strike called by Umpire Tom Dunn. Olmo: "You missed that one." Dunn: "You shut up." Olmo: "I won't shut up." That finished Olmo (fine: $50). For objecting to Dunn's action, Manager Leo ("The Lip'') Durocher also got the heave-ho. The Pirates, long experienced in treading the paths of banishment, began laying a carpet of towels for the Lip's exit. Durocher gave the towels a few kicks, then reached into a box of baseballs and scattered the pellets down the right-field foul line. Fine...