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a 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 compell-
ing figure of 1955 will be Jack Fleck.
(Iis finish in the United States Golt
Open, and his play -oft win over the great Ben Bogan 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 conquered the mighty Hogan, Fleck was
so completely unknown that when he tried to cash a cheque
for $50 at th office of the tournament, he was turned down
by a careful cashier.
Several pros offered to chip in to make up the $50 but
,Fleck thanked 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.
He was just another golfer. Even when his third round '75
gave him a total of 220, Fleck 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 birdies for a win.
Fleck showed his courage and iron nerve on the final
hole when he dropped a seven -foot putt for a birdie and a
tie with Hogan. He 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.
His 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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by Elmer Ferguson, c/o Calvert House, 431 Yonge Si., Toronto.
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The Flying Bulldog
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-bombs.
Like a bulldog, the Nike never
lets go.
Fired against a hostile 'plane,
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
el the North Pole, will give the
United States a two-hour warn-
ing of the approach of enemy
aircraft. The D.E.W. Line will
be reinforced by a number of
nian-made islands "anchored"
to strategic points. Enemy air-
eraft 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 enemy
pilots could make the Nike bat-
teries impotent by dropping
their nuclear bombs upwind, a
!Ong .way from the cities and the
Nike batteries, and let the
radioactivity drift over the cit-
ies.
From the President down-
wards, everyone holding res-
ponsible office 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 fromour
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
people 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 out here last June. It was
the third operation of its kind,
and there will be others. The
American Government has four
Plans, B, C, D, and D -minus,
to develop four degrees of
readiness in the event of Amer-
ica becoming involved in. dif-
ferent types of warlike action.
Plan B would cover the sort.
of situation that might arise if
America became involved in
local hostilities. in some area of
the world.
Plan C deals .with general.
mobilizzation without an attack
on United States home terri-
tories,
Plan D covers general mobil-
ization if home territories are
attacked.
Plan D -minus would go into
immediate effect if the United
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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"`SIAMESE" SCORE, ALSO — Look-alikes of opposing teams re-
semble Siamese twins as .they tangle over the soccer ball dur-
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ur-h g a match et London, England. Score of the game also mirror-
ed a took -alike angle—it was a 0.0 draw.
LA PRENSA MAY LIVE AGAIN—Dr. Alberto Gianza-Pax reads
a late 1950 edition of his paper in New York City, where he
awaits word that he will once more be free to publish the
world-famous Argentine daily, confiscation of which in ,1951
brought down world-wide condemnation of recently deposed
President Juan Peron. Under provisional government ,of Presi-
dent Eduardo Lonardi, the La Prensa property may be returned.
through the courts rather than by government decree, as first
expected. Gianza-Paz endorses the procedure, saying that
"where all legality is violated as it was by Peron, so it must
be restored through its normal resorts or mechanisms, through
the courts."
world, stretching, 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
everything 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 not employed there have
ever been allowed inside this
holy of holies—the nerve cen-
tre of America's defence organ-
ization.
The Pentagon is a five -sided,
five -storied building standing on
the River Potomac, a few miles
from the city of Washington.
It's ' the largest government
building in the world. There is
the Mall Entrance . and the'
River Entrance. I went in by
the River Eentrance. On an
average day 'there are between
eight and nine thousand cars
parked here.
If Washington were attacked,
the, plan is to move these cars
Out of the seventy acres of
parking into an intricate road
net leading to highways. Driv-
ers would fill their cars with
passengers, including those who'
' normally travel by bus, and
start getting out •of. the Wash-
ington area. This part of the
programme was not tried out in
the June test when . President
Eisenhower and his staff took
to the hills some miles from
Washington.
It is planned to move some
government departments as far
away as 300 miles—if war comes.
I am told that one afternoon
last winter when there was a
light snowfall, the Pentagon
staff. whose hours are usually
staggered, all started for' home
at once. Some car drivers found
themselves still trying to get
out of Pentagon- parking lots an
hour after they started up their
motors. Sbme required another
two hours to reach home only
eight miles away.
At the entrances to the build-
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 lounging Negro car
callers:
I opened thecedar-wood doors
unchallenged and found myself
in a long but very narrow kind
of ante -room. More cedar -wood
doors and then I reached a large
cool. hall which reminded me of
a ,swank nursing home. A beau-
teous blonde sat behind a glass
counter on which stood a large
bowl of exquisite flowers.
"Can I help you?" she smiled
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 men-
tioned the name of the man with
whom I had an appointment!
The blonde consulted a list, then
handed me a' chart of the build-
ing with the number of the
floor, the ring, that's to say lo-
cation, the number of the corri-
dor; and the number of the bay,
all marked with a red pencil.
Each floor has a colour. First
floor tan, second floor green,
third floor red, fourth floor grey,
fifth floor blue. And I, who have
no bump of location at all, ar-
rived safely and unlost at my
destination, as I did en subse-
quent visits to other depart-
ments.
But when one does arrive at
one's destination, what a noise,
what a clatter! Voices, 'phone
bells, typewriters, teleprinters,
loudspeakers (I mean both hu-
mans and machines) all going at
MODERN VERSION — Carlo Col-
lodi's wooden puppet, "Pinoc-
chio," is being refashioned in
bronze by sculptor Emilio Greco,
shown in Rome finishing the
chalk model. The modernistic
statue shows the puppet look-
ing up at the Blue -Haired Fairy,
his protector in the story known
by children of many countries.
A heron, topping the work,
symbolizes Pinocchio's change
into a real boy. funds for the
statue which will stand in the
Gardens of Collodi in the au-
thor's home town of Pescia,
Italy, were donated by children
from all over the world.
once! I almost gave up trying
to hear what was being said to
me because it was like a thirty-
three ring circus, and all under
one roof, as it were.
Looking more closely I saw
there was a lot of confabbing
going on: \A pretty girl in. naval
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 fishhooks!" I heard.
"I said to him, • `Cap'n,' I said,
'you can't talk to me theta -
way!'
I conclude this personal ap-
praisal 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 come to
America the enemy will receive
an equally grim reception.
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We have seen that it was the
child's musical talent that, first
evoked the wonder of her neigh-
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mother at the baby's fanfare on
the piano; the amazement of
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The first of January 1837,
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the mother, the Directors were
to decide at what date Jenny.
Lind should be given a fixed
salary, as actress at the Royal
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eleven times, besides her ap-
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considered time to give her a
fixed and salaried position, after
which she is still bound, by the
original contract, to be in the
service of the Directors for ten
years, if they require it of her.
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