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That was what boastful Welker Cochran thought of his principal opponents four weeks ago when he settled down at Manhattan's Capitol Billiard Academy to a three-week defense of his world's three-cushion billiard championship. In his first match, against left-handed Alfredo de Oro, 71-year-old Cuban who was the champion pocket-billiard player 47 years ago, Cochran led at 37-10-36. De Oro made a run of four that included a billiard in which his cue ball touched not the minimum of three cushions before striking the object ball, but five. Then...
Last fortnight in a furnace-like jail cell at Poona, the little human lemur who is India's greatest figure, the Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, slowly sipped a glass of fruit juice. Half an hour later, on scheduled time, he began a one-man war of inaction: a three-week fast to protest India's stigma on Untouchables. The first day he drank a good deal of water, mixed with salt and soda. That night the British Government released him from Yerovda Jail, his home since January 1932. Still sprightly, he stepped into an automobile at the jail...
...Pariah Untouchables. Inside the bare parched skull "a tempest was raging." Finally, "the voice became insistent and said, 'Why don't you do it?' I resisted but in vain.'' Last week on Harijan (Untouchables' Day) Gandhi announced what "it" was: a three-week fast to force all India's temples to admit Untouchables. He will begin on May 8. Doctors last week said he could not survive another fast. Said Gandhi, "I have no desire to die. . . . But I need for myself and my fellow-workers greater purity, application and dedication...
Gareth Jones, a serious young man with glasses, arrived in Berlin last week after a three-week tour of the Ukraine. He had a dreadful tale to tell, and Berlin correspondents listened politely because serious Mr. Jones was once a private secretary to David Lloyd George, and before making his trip to the Ukraine he spent many a long hour learning to speak Russian-far more fluently than most Russian correspondents. Said...
...clock that morning the four defendants, whom a polyglot jury had convicted of manslaughter instead of second-degree murder, were led into the Honolulu courtroom where they had sat through their three-week trial. Mounting the bench Judge Charles S. Davis pronounced his sentence: "Ten years imprisonment at hard labor."* A smile flickered across Lieut. Massie's face. Mrs. Fortescue almost pranced she was so happy. The two enlisted men were as jaunty as ever. They all knew what was coming...