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...Michigan State's 140-lb. John Edward Bechtold. A resident of New York's Bronx, he returned almost unknown last week to his old stamping ground to win Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America's 5-mi. cross-country run. Judges, amazed at his unexpected victory, were further amazed that four of his teammates had also finished among the first eleven, had won the team title for the third straight year...
Because the Islands' 12,500 mi. coastline is easily "reachable" by* every power in Asia, the U. S. Army for years wanted to cast the Islands off. But few Army men were surprised when General Douglas MacArthur, ending a long and brilliant term as U. S. Chief of Staff, packed his elegant duffel and sailed to Manila as the Commonwealth's Military Adviser (TIME, Sept. 30). General Mac Arthur's mission is to set up in the next two years a military establishment, costing 16,000,000 pesos ($8,000,000) and enrolling 19,000 men, which...
...into retirement was goat-bearded, rheumy-eyed but able and sagacious old General Emilio de Bono. Under this Original Fascist the flower of Italy's hottest-headed youthful volunteers have gone out to Africa, avenged the 19th Century "Shame of Aduwa" and occupied some 10,000 sq. mi. The combination of young hotheads in the van with a very old Fascist behind them has been either extremely odd or touched with genius. Enemies of the Dictator have accused him of sending first to fight in Africa mercurial youths whom it was becoming difficult to control at home...
...Last week the Suez Canal management announced that its gigantic suction dredgers had completed the job of deepening the 100-mi, long ditch through the shifting sand of the Sinai Desert from 33 to 34 ft., to oblige primarily big Australian freighters, incidentally the British Navy. *Wafd means "delegation." The party takes its name from the delegation led by Zaghlul Pasha to Paris in 1919 to voice Egyptian Nationalist aspirations at the Peace Conference...
Next day when she buzzed off toward Rio, her luck ran out. Missing her way over the jungle, she bogged down for the night with a leaking fuel tank in a swamp 60 mi. from...