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...Cheung Kinman, 19, the annual cross-harbor (1,743 yards) swimming race; at Hong Kong. A record 877 swimmers, ranging in age from 9 to 62, splashed into the harbor before a mob of 30,000 onlookers crammed into junks, sampans and ferries to watch the fun. It was Cheung's fourth victory in the 44-year-old event...
Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas knows the political risk of discussing racial tension. But last week, after a Cook County grand jury failed to indict Cicero, Ill. race rioters, and indicted instead the lawyer for a Negro mob victim, Douglas spoke a few plain, courageous words...
...Catholics, Protestants and Jews, for Northerners, Southerners and Westerners, and for the black and white as well. All of us are inheritors of our American traditions. We cannot ignore [conflicts of interests]. But I ask that we meet them with understanding, not with hate; with orderly procedures, not with mob violence...
...Lavender Hill Mob (Rank; Universal-International), a superior British-made thriller, is divided into almost equal parts of high comedy and farce. The first and best half of the film shows in loving detail how prim Alec Guinness, for 20 years a trusted employee of the Bank of England, steals $1,000,000 in gold bars and smuggles them to the Continent...
...judge, he pored for hours over classic volumes on military strategy, kept a string of race horses, fought pistol duels for Rachel's honor and full-scale battles (New Orleans) for his country's. Small wonder that when, to top it all, he was inaugurated President, a mob of his admirers gate-crashed the White House (and soiled the rugs and chairs with their muddy boots), trying to embrace...