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• Unless the golden coach of sport,
discharges, another and more glittering
Cinderella, or some obscure athlete writes
a greater ,Frank Merriwell story, the
man to win rating as the most:
ing figure of 1<955 will be Jack Fleck,
His finish in the United States Golf
Open, and his play-off win over the great Ben Hogan Con-
stitutes at once the greatest upset, and the most dramatic
event of ,the year.
Fleck became great overnight, literally A few hours
before,he met and eonquered the mighty Hogan, Fleck was
so completely unknown that when he tried to cash a cheque
for $59. at th office of the tournament, he was turned down
by a careful cashier,'
Severel pros offered, to chip in to make up the $50 but
Fleclethariked them and said he'd manage, to get along without
the money. And we'd say he managed very, well,.
The quiet 32-year-old unknown from Davenport, Iowa,
was unheralded and unsung in the early rounds of the Open.
lie was ,just another golfer. Even when his third round 75
gave him a total of 220, !leek , didn't figure as a serious'
contender,
It was only on the 15th hole of the final round' that word
got out to Fleck that„he could tie Ben Hogan's pace-setting
'score of 287 with two Pars and a couple of birdies;'on the
tough finishing holes. A par and three birdied for a win.
Fleck showed' hip -courage and iron nerve On ,the final
hole when he dropped a seven-foot putt for a birdie and a
tie with Hogan. Fie proved himself 'a real champion when
he went out the following day and shot a 69 to beat Hogan
in the play-off by three strokes.
Fleck was an unknown when the tournament started
but he won the title by playing great golf when it counted.
Ills victory is the kind that provides a thrill even to the most
jaded in sports. It is the sort of tremendous accomplishment
that only happens in dreams.
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there was a lot of cohfabbing
going on. A pretty girl in navel
uniform had 'four young men
round her. Perhaps this has
something- to' do With the Red
Navy? I tried •to lend an ear
"Gosh, all Ashhoolts!" 1 heard
"I said to him, 'Cap'n,' 1, said,
can't talk ,to me theta- WayI, „-
I conclude this, personal ap-
praise! while the War clouds ap-
pear, happily, to be, rolling away
I am only too aware of the
grimness of What I have seen
and heard, but I am quite con-
fident that if war does rums to
America the enemy will receive
an equally grim reception.
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Great Singer Was
Great Actress, Too
We have seen that it was the
child's, musical talent that, first
evoked •the woncleeof her neigh-
bours. The stupor of the grand-
mother at the baby's fanfare on
the piano; the amazement of.
the passers-by at 'the• sang
which was being confided to the
ears of the patient and appre-
ciative .cat; the tears that start-
ed to the eyes of Croelius —
these are the earliest signals of.
her marvelous gifts. But we,
now, have to recognize a new
characteristic, which was almost
more phenomenal than her
singing. Indeed, it may well be
doubted whether, during her,
first ten yea-rs at the Royal
Theatre, it did not surpass her
voice in witnessing to the pres-
ence in her of a unique genius.
This was her dramatic power.
Precocious and extraordinary as
'her child-voice had been, both
in versatility and in tenderness,
yet her early woman's voice did
'not, at first, exhibit or develop
its after-gifts of high sonor-
ity...,
In later years, those,, who
heard her sing in opera, would
often say, that if she had ,not
been the greatest singer in the
world, she would have b'een the
greatest actress. 'And' we shall
see the, evidence for the truth of,
this anticipatihn, if We glance
over all the early records- of.
her performance at the theatre;
and we shall, also, understand
through, what years of' actual
experience it was that she had
obtained that thorough mastery
over' all the detail and method,
of the stage, which made her
acting so consummate.
The long 'list of her perfor-
mances, kept in 'the records of
the Royal' Theatre, reveal to us.
that already, in , the very first
year of her admittance to' the
school, as a 'little child of ten
years old, she made her ap-
pearance on the boards, on No-
vember 29, 1830, in a 'play call-
ed "The Polish Mine," described
as a "Drama, with Dance,"
The first of January 1837,
marks a new departure. Accord-
ing .to the contract of .1833, with
the mother, the Directors were
to decide at what date Jenny
Lind should be given a fixed
salary, as actress at the Royal
Theatre, Hitherto the inoheY
paid her by the Directors has
been simply arrangement for
her keep, She has performed',
on their behalf, under this ar-
rangement One hundred and
eleven times, besides 'her ap-
pearances at concerts. it is, now,
considered tithe 'to 'give hen' a
fixed and salaried position, after
which she is still bound, by the
original, contract, to be, in the
service of the Directors tar ten
years, if they require it of her:c
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LA PRENSA MAY' LIVE AGAIN—Dr, Alberto Gianza-Paz reads
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Trying•To Steal
Body 'Of Lincoln
The Flying Bulldog
Are some birds flying fasteX)
on the average, than, they did a
"few years ago?
This question is being serious-,
ly asked by some. bird-Watchers
who think they detect a tenden-
cy or certain birds to travel
more Swiftly. Speed in birds is
very deceptive and it is a corn-
/99h temptation .among uature,
lolverv, to ,civereestitriate it, but
there may be something in the
theory, say ornithologists.
E'er bircld; as for niotoriitat the
maintenance of high speeds over
long-distence j:ourneys is a very
different matter from she maxi-
mum attainable for shprt sPtirts.
Pigeons tend to 41Y; fasfel; to-
day, says one expert, They're
stilla long way from sound bar-
riet speeds — but you never
knr. Onlopigeon is said to have
flovin 11,4 ,fniles at 80 m.p.h., but
other birds have already beaten
that. 1,
Some floeks of -hoecled crows
arrived at Heligoland one morn
ing at eight o'clock and three
hours later they were on the
east coast of England, 320 miles
distant, having travelled at over
100 m.p,h.
A' German scientist who spent
months studying birds' speeds
found that plovers and curlews
travelled over four miles in a
minute—more than 240' 'm.p.h.
In Britain the swift seems to
travel at a terriffic speed, espe-
cially when just over the ground,
but timing shows that it rarely
exceeds a mile. a minute.
Puffins, when flying down to
the sea from a rock 1,300 ft.
high, sped at 120 m.p.h., records
one naturalist. A. peregrine
swooping down from 1,000 ft.
on to a partridge flew at nearly
200 m.p.h., so he estimated. The
golden plover attains 70 m.p.h.,
the swallow 65; the pheasant 62,
the partridge 53, while he found
a rook was going all out at 40
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The Nike guided Missile is
like a mechanical bulldog.. Its,
main object is to guard Ameri-,
can cities against enemy jet
'planes carrying H- or. A-boinbs.
Like a bulldog, the Nike never
lets go.
Fired against ,a hostile
the Nike makes for it unerring-
ly, its target acting like a mag-
net to it. No *matter how the
aircraft may twist, and turn, the
Nike will get it and blow it to'
pieces. And' in falling to earth,
any A-bomb carried will not
explode without its fuSe.
The defence plan,• referred to
in my last article,, is,, to ring
American cities and important
installations with Nike batter-
ies.
Vital Difference
The Defence ,Early - Warning
Line, the 'huge radar, screen
now being built in the vicinity.
of the ,Isterth,p,ole, will give the
United;States a tivohour, warn-
ing of the approach of enemy
aircraft. The D.E.W. Line will
be reinforced by a number of
man-made Wands "anchored"
to strategid points. Enemy aire
craft flying 'over,. American ter-
ritories will be attacked by Nike
batteries.
,But Americans have been told
by top-ranking experts that if
war comes within the' next two
years they. must be prepared for
the "destruction of at least five
of their' largest cities, and there'
may well, be fifteen' million
casualties.
Dr. Lapp, American nuclear
expert, has affirmed that enerny
pilots- could make the Nike bat-,
teries impotent' by dropping
their nticlear bombs upWitid, a
long way frorri the pities and the
Nike batteries, and let- the'
radioactivity drift over the cit-
ies.
From the President down-
Wards, everyone holding res-
ponsible offiee in the present
Administration takes the prob-
lems of defence very seriously.
A woman who has been allotted'
a key job in, civil defence said
to me: "You people in Britain,
have- had experience of, two
major wars, just as we in, Amer-
' ica- have,' but there is one vital
difference. We fought thou-
, sands of miles away from our
homeland; but on both occasions'
you in' Britain were in the front
line. You stood up to it,- but"
frankly we don't know how our
peciple will 'stand up to night
and day bombardment with
atomic weapons."
Four Plans
That is .what lay behind the
gigantic, mock air raid tests car-
ried dui here last June. It was
the third operation of its kind,
and there: will be others. The
Ameriden Government has four
Plans, B, C, D. and reminus,
to develop four degrees of •
readiness In tha"event, of Amer
ica becoming inyolved in dif-
Yerent types ;Of warlike action.
Plan B woUld coeer the,sert,'
•Of situation that might arise if
America became invetved-' in
local hostilities in some area. of
the world.
Plan C •deals with, general
mobilizzation without an attack
on United. Sfates home tern.:
tories. •
Plan D covers general mobil-
ization if home territories are
attacked.,
,Plan. D-minus would go into
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States were attacked. Some
29,000 men' and' women Of the
armed forces and civilians are
concerned with this plan which
has ramifications' all over the
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Ninety years Igo Abraham
• Lincoln. stepped into the box
of a Washington theatre and met
an assassin's bullet. When citi-
zens gather in an Illinoia ceme-
tery to pay, tribute to his, memo-
ry their every move is being
watched- by detectives.
Below the floor of the great
mausoleum the body of. Ameri-
ca's great national hero rests un-
easily. The amazing fact is• that
it has been moved no fewer than
seventeen times to prevent its
being stolen by crooks and held
to ransom.
One daring coup almost suc-
ceeded. Big Jim Kenealy headed
the cleverest gang of counter-
feiters in the States,. But when
the police inconveniently jailed
Ben. Boyd, his master engraver,
Jim decided to steal the body of
Lincoln and then offer to swap
it for 'Bee Boyd's release .
•and 250,000
_ What's more, the State of Il-
linois , had• no law making it a
crime to .steal a corpse.
It promised to be easy to raid
the lonely vault, stuff the body
of Anietiea!s national 'hero, into
a sack and hide it among' the
sanddunes, A'S soon as Lincoln
was missed, the nation would •be
. in 'an uproar. Then was the time
to' drive a hard 'bargain.
"I don't like it," said his crony,
Joe- Swegles. "It's outrageous!"
But' Kenealy out-talked his
qualms. "How Will they know
you're telling,the triith?"'Sweg-
les persisted. "HoW Will they
knaw you're the actual thief?"
'Jim. Kenealy' had, worked that
out, too. A page of a neWspaper
was torn jaggedly in two. One
half was•to be left in the tomb.
The other half, fitting it exactly,
Jim planned to keep as his proof.
The coup was neatly timed , for
election night, LinCelh lay buried
deep in the deserted woods, two
trines from Springfield where'
boisterous voters paraded.
Smiling confidently, Big Jiria
sawed through the, padloek on
the iron door' and stole, into the
musty vault, The, wooden coffin
was prised half out when' Sweg-
les paused in the doorway and
struck a match to light his cigar.
The next instant a sudden rush
of men swept past Min.
The solitary lantern went out.
Revolver shotS tang out —
til the detectives who had been
Waiting in the woods in their
stockinged feet realised • they
were taking .pot-shots at each
tither.
The conspirators had escaped
'but Abraham Lincoln was Saved.
It Was ten days before the gang=
stern Were rounded
save Swegles, whO had turned
informer, ..„ Kenealy had overlooked a
minor detail the portrait of
Lincoln tatteoecl bit 'SWegles'
wrist. Even etaelte have their
polities!
Kenealy was right in asserting
he' could. Steal Abrahein LinColn
Without punishment. lint' he
went to jail for conspiring to
steal a tell% worth $75.
world, stre(ching, as likely as
not, into the very town or vil-
lage where you are reading this
article,
9,000-Car Park
The name: of the place where
e v eryrt hing appertaining to
American armed, forces is„plan-
ned is called the-, Pentagon.
Many millions have heard:,or,
read aboUt'it, but, very feW peo-
ple net ''ethplOyed there liaie
ever been!, alldwed inside - this'
holy - of holiesthe..nerve'
tie of America's defence. organ-
ization,
The Pentagon is a five-sided,
five-Sforied building, standing "on
the River:.Potomac a.fevi.miles
from the. city. ,of Washington.
It's the largest. government
building in the world. There,
the 1‘ila`li' ''Entrance ' . and 'the
River 'Entranee.' kvent 4 hi' by
the ,River:- Eentrence: On an
average- day there are between,
eight,,aed„nine; thousand cars.
parked here. ,
If Washington were attacked,
the plan is to moverlhese ears
out of the seventy acres of-
parking into an intricate' road
net leading to .1•1ighweya,;Driv-
ers would fill their cars with
pasSengers,.inclUdirig 'these who
normally travel by bup, and
start getting out 'of the' Wash-
ington area. This part of "the
programthe was:liat tried Out in
the, June test. when President
Eisenhower and his, staff took
to the hills• some miles froth
Washington.
It .is • planned to • move some.
governinene departments as far o
away. as 300 miles—if war conies.
I am: told that one afterneen
last whiter; when there was e
light snowfall,, 'the' ' pentagon
staff:, whose hours are 'r
staggered, all "Started .for- home,
at once, Some -car drivers'.found
theniselVes Still trying, to ,get
Out, of Pentagen parking lots an
hour after they: started UP their
motors Some . required another
two hourd .te reach home only
eight miles away,
'At the entrances to .the
ing stand the police security men
With revolvers on 'their hips,
Some civilians, • most' probably,
J. Edgar Hoover's G-men, and
a number of leunging Negro car
callers.
I opened the declar‘wOod.cloors
nhchalienged and found myself
in a long but very narrow, kin&
of ante-room. More 'cedar-wood
doors and then I reached a large
cool hair which reminded_me of
swank nursing home.. A beau--
tedu& blonde Sat behind a glass
counter on which stood a' large
bowl of exquisite flowers.
"Can I help you?" she sinned
sweetly. HOW utterly unwarlike
all this is, I felt, I' stifled a de-
sire to ask if. I might see the
patient in Ward X, and Binh-
tinned tbe name of the man with'
whom I had an appoititeienti
The blonde consulted a list, then
handed: Me a chart Of the build
ing with the 'Mnlier of the
fitter, the ring, that'S to So le-
cation, the 'holt boy of the corgi-
cloit and the number of the bay,
all Marked With a red peneil.
Each float has a ccilptir, First
doer tan, second floor green,
third floor red, fourth floor greY,
fifth'floor blue. And I, who have
no bump of ltieatien at all, ar-
rived Safely and unlost at my
destination, as' I did on elibag
quent visits to other &parte
Manta,
ut when one ckieS arrive at
one's destiiiatiOii, what a holed;
What a clatter! Valets, 'phinie
typewriters, teleprinters,
loudspeakers (I Metal both fitt=,
Maria and machines)' goieg at
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