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Serpentine Ally. At Shiloh, according to newspaper accounts, the good captain "stood erect in front of his men, during the whole engagement, but escaped all injury, except having about three inches torn from the left shoulder of his coat, by a ball from the enemy." General Sherman made him a lieutenant colonel and assistant provost marshal of Memphis, where, even in 1862, blockaded cotton was being feverishly and profitably traded to Northern mills. At Lincoln's command, Littlefield later organized one of the first Negro regiments. By war's end. General Littlefield's character, as well...
Covering Middle East hot spots through a glass darkly, high-spirited Journalist Randolph Churchill, son of Sir Winston, managed to set a short-tour record (45 minutes) for strife-torn Beirut. Lumbering into the Palm Beach Hotel after curfew, Randy demanded 1) a room, 2) whisky, 3) an explanation from the British embassy's second secretary for not meeting him at the airport. When the secretary explained about curfew, Churchill decided to go higher, hung up with "I'll telephone the ambassador-you're not much use." Hoisting another round, he ran afoul of an aide...
Buried Treasure. The Deputies were met for a showdown between Prime Minister U Nu and his ministerial rivals, U Ba Swe and U Kyaw Nyein, whose personal and political differences have torn asunder the ruling Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League (TIME, May 12). Behind them were tension-ridden weeks of politicking, rumblings of military coups, intrigue and insult. In the struggle for votes, one Deputy jailed on a murder charge was let out to cast his ballot; another, who had been hospitalized by an auto accident, was badgered daily by special pleaders; another resigned his seat in protest...
...that were marked with Sinhalese letters. In response, Sinhalese mobs erupted in the streets of Colombo, obliterating all Tamil lettering on store fronts and signboards. Premier Bandaranaike abjectly reversed himself again and came out once more for Sinhalese as the national language. Disorders swept the country; railway tracks were torn up, telephone and telegraph wires cut. Cities and towns became the scene of communal war. In Colombo 10,000 terrified Tamils were herded into protective camps. In the Tamil country, beleaguered Sinhalese were similarly gathered together and protected by the police and army...
...Ohhh, my back," groaned Walter Winchell, 61, as he soft-shoed through a cluster of show girls rehearsing in Las Vegas, Nev. "Feel this corset," said the grand old man of keyhole journalism. "Go ahead, feel it. I've got a torn muscle near the sacroiliac. How the hell am I gonna get over to that side of the stage?" Last week Gossipist Winchell, an oldtime hoofer before he cast himself in the role of a newspaperman, painfully returned for $35,000 a week to his first love-himself on a stage-and it was rough...