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South of the city, the Communist vanguard surged on to a point halfway between Shanghai and the refugee Nationalist capital of Canton. More than 350 miles of the Shanghai-Canton railway were in Red hands. Another Communist spearhead was within 150 miles of the vital seaport of Foochow. West of...
Into Athens' Constitution Square rumbled a bus full of wounded Greek soldiers. They waved their crutches jauntily, sang hearty peasant songs and enjoyed the warm spring weather. After a hard winter, the city's heavy-scented orange blossoms were out at last. And in their rugged mountains, the...
To escape the Communists' well-executed envelopment, Nationalist troops began to evacuate Nanking. Three days after the Red offensive had begun, they streamed out of the capital, weary and disorganized, along the dry brown roads leading through fields of green vegetables and yellow rape, southward and eastward toward the...
Shortly after his victory over the quarter-horse in Florida, Olympia was loaded onto an airplane for California. Flashing to the front in Santa Anita's $50,000 San Felipe Stakes, Olympia was still there at the end of the seven-furlong race. But in the $100,000 Santa...
Rugged Clinton Golden, a former locomotive fireman, a leader of the Steelworkers' Union and veteran of half a dozen Government posts dealing with labor elaborated: "The individual sought refuge in organizations [leagues, associations, societies, lobbies, bureaus, granges, cooperatives, parties] in order to protect his own integrity and to win...