Word: 24th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's vacation and 72nd birthday celebration at his paper mill in northern Quebec, Chicago Tribune Publisher Robert R. ("Bertie") McCormick last week came back to work. He stepped briskly out of the elevator of Chicago's Tribune Tower into his oval-shaped office on the 24th floor, greeted his secretary and asked: "Will you please call WGN [the Trib's radio station'] and ask them for the correct time?" A moment later she announced that it was 11:21. McCormick carefully set the gold-banded watch on his right wrist and the silver-banded...
Academy Awards (Thurs. 11 p.m., ABC). The 24th annual presentation of movie "Oscars...
...When the 24th U.S. Division was beleaguered at Taejon in the first desperate month of the Korean war, TiME-LIFE Correspondent Wilson Fielder, 33, went in to cover the fight. The son of Baptist missionaries in China, Fielder was a veteran of the Marine Corps and of Texas and West Coast newspapering before he joined TIME. He had gone up to Korea from Hong Kong to be a combat correspondent (TIME, July 31, 1950). When Taejon fell to the Communists, Fielder left the burning ruins in the back seat of a jeep, seated next to a G.I. The jeep...
...housed in Houghton Library, is scheduled to get three special display rooms next month, so that it can better exhibit some of its treasures to the public. The Sheldon Room will display the works of Edward Sheldon '96, after whom the room is named, along with other material on 24th century drama. Costumes and scene designs from important productions will decorate the room...
...July 1950, after one disastrous month of war, the South Korean army was shattered and demoralized; only elements of the U.S. 24th Division stood in the path of the Communists to Pusan and the sea. The American plan at that time was not to stop the Reds cold; that was impossible. The plan, drawn by Douglas MacArthur, was to slow them down by forcing them to deploy. That mission was entrusted to Major General William F. Dean, who had risen to be a division commander in the European theater of World War II. The mission was accomplished...