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November 8, 1942

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M'KELVEY ANNEXES HORSE SHOW TITLE; Glen Ridge Youth Equitation Victor in National Event -- Maclay Trophy to Dunn

By John Rendel

A robust though somber shade of the National Horse Show tradition lived for an afternoon and evening at the Riding and Polo Club yesterday. The glitter was dimmed, the pageantry muted, but there were those who saw in the survival of this sporting and social fixture, the fifty-seventh of its existence, a spirit that the war could subdue but not break.

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HOW MEN HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED; MEN AT WAR: The Beat War Stories of All Times. Edited With an Introduction by Ernest Hemingway. Based on a Plan by William Kozlenko. 1,072 pp. New York: Crown Publishers. $3.

By Herbert Gorman

IT is a thundering panorama that Mr. Ernest Hemingway unrolls before us in "Men at War." Here in a battlewagon of a book (nearly eleven hundred pages) he has gathered eighty-two short stories, excerpts from novels, memoirs or history, that show fighting men of all the ages engaged in practically every type of warfare.

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Notable Births

Ángel Cordero Jr.

1942Angel Cordero Jr., Puerto Rican-American jockey[†]

Ángel Tomás Cordero Jr. is a Puerto Rican jockey. He is known for being one of the winningest Thoroughbred horse racing jockeys of the late 20th-century and the first Puerto Rican to be inducted into the United States' Racing Hall of Fame. He led all jockeys in wins at Saratoga Race Course for thirteen years. Cordero rode three Kentucky Derby winners and won over 6000 races in his career.

Sandro Mazzola

1942Sandro Mazzola, Italian footballer and sportscaster[†]

Alessandro "Sandro" Mazzola is an Italian former professional footballer, who played as a forward or attacking midfielder for Internazionale and the Italy national team. He has worked also as a football analyst and commentator on the Italian national television station RAI.

Historical Events

World War II

1942World War II: French Resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyist generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers.[†]

World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes.