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Agreement on these matters by the three Western Allies bore chiefly on the war and the peace in Europe. But the basic agreement-on international association and the disposal of defeated enemies-also had the signature of China's Moscow Ambassador, Foo Ping-sheung. The texts carefully dissociated China from the war in Europe, Russia from the war with Japan. But the significant fact remained that the U.S.S.R. and China had signed a joint, wartime document...
...interlude between wars, Mark Clark was just another officer. He went through the advanced schools-Infantry, General Staff, War College. He played tennis and ping-pong, developed a taste for fishing in the Rockies and Puget Sound. In 1924 he married blonde Maurine Doran of Muncie, Ind. Mrs. Clark has confessed publicly that she met her husband "on a blind date" in Washington. There are two children: Ann, 17, who attends a high-school sculpture class in the national capital; and Will, 18, a plebe at West Point...
Cargill men hope this will be enough inducement for grain, coal and ore ship pers to make Port Cargill their rail-ship transfer point (WPB designated it the region's ore transfer point for war ship ping this spring, but retracted when Minneapolis and St. Paul objected). Cargill has long boosted river shipping, contended the big obstacle was not shallow channels, but lack of the proper boats. At war's end, Cargill, for the first time, will have an efficient, top-notch yard to rectify that...
...picture was flung together in the U.S. with the blessing of the National Council for American Soviet Friendship. A flatulent commentary with lines like "Fly, you banners-there is no wind strong enough to blow you down" is ping-ponged between Blues-Singer Libby Holman and mopey Actor Morris Carnovsky. The famous suspense with which Director Sergei Eisenstein prefaced the battle in Alexander Nevsky has been unmercifully hacked when half a minute of editorial discretion would have kept it whole, and the excellent battle music which Prokofieff contrived for that sequence becomes an aural trunk murder. Eisenstein's appalling...
...Another vicious ball-swatter is short-tempered, tough Harold Ickes. His favorite game: table tennis (ping-pong, as Mr. Ickes plays...