Contest, if not conflict, is part of man's unresting nature; the urge that needs a "moral equivalent for war" finds outlets other than politics, champions other than Molotov and Byrnes. This month some of the heroes symbolizing that urge weighed in at 1,500 Ibs., while some weighed 20 oz. They held the attention of thousands weary of war but not of competition.
Wings over western France and the English Channel no longer meant Spitfires or V-bombs. The National Club for Pigeon Races of London, in a great postwar revival, arranged for 3,500 birds to be taken in three airplanes to Bordeaux,...
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