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...third set-point, to win it 11-9. Playing with a concentration he had seldom shown either as an amateur or a pro, Pancho stuck to his big guns and finally won the two-hour match, taking the deciding set 13-11. Next night, hampered by a torn callus and a lame ankle, big Pancho Gonzales nonetheless beat little Pancho Segura, 7-9, 6-4, 6-4. to make his comeback official -and to pocket some well-earned cash...
...want to mangle the new President." At last Magsaysay was lifted to the shoulders of some of his constituents while others tried to reach up and wipe the sweat from his streaming brow. When he reached his car, one sleeve of his sport shirt had been torn off. His pants were saved only by the safety pins with which he had foresightedly fastened them to his undershirt...
When Author de Beauvoir left the U.S. she was still critical, but so captivated with New York that her "heart was torn." She felt "miserable to be leaving this country, which had so often irritated me." The full measure of her reaction is perhaps carried in her last page, where she describes her arrival in the Paris she loves. "How old the customs men were, how crumpled their uniforms! They did not seem proud to be French citizens; there was a hangdog look about them . . . The people are poorly dressed; the women have colorless, frizzy hair, the men grey faces...
Back for Seconds. Thanksgiving morning Ike, Mamie and Barbara went to church. Because the Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church had been torn down to be built anew, services were held in the Sunday-school auditorium. But the church fathers had carefully placed the President's pew in its usual spot (seventh on the right). The nation's first family joined in singing Come, Ye Thankful People, Come and We Gather Together...
Acts of heroism were common. One lieutenant won the Medal of Honor by ignoring a bullet-torn left hand and lobbing grenades into a Jap machine-gun nest till he knocked it out. With two more bullets in his chest, he mounted a U.S. tank and fired its antiaircraft gun into a second machine-gun position until still another bullet knocked him off the tank. He was back with his unit within a month...