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Major General Blackshear M. Bryan Jr., 51, commander of 24th Division: West Point, 1922; well-known as a football coach at West Point in the '203; general staff officer in Washington, 1941; provost marshal general, 1945; chief of staff under Ridgway, Caribbean command...
...Columbia University Lions, No. 4 in U.S. ranking, have been one of the surprise basketball teams of the year. In a hard-fought 54-44 victory over Cornell at Ithaca last week, the Lions won their 15th game in a row this season, their 24th straight over two seasons. That kept them on top of the Eastern Intercollegiate (Ivy) League and the only undefeated major team in the country...
...unquestionably strong squad should expand and improve when the spring season starts. The material and the spirit are there. But first, they face their last and toughest indoor meet. On the 24th they travel to Exeter, who can match them in all events. But coach Bill McCrdy isn't getting worried. "Why shouldn't we do well?" he asked. "The Exeter boys have only two legs, just like...
From the north, northwest and northeast, the Chinese converged on Seoul. The U.S. 24th Division, holding the center road leading to the city, slowed up the enemy by counterattacking with 20 Pershing tanks, and briefly recaptured Uijongbu. But this was only a delaying action; Seoul was doomed. President Syngman Rhee and his cabinet fled to Pusan. Allied evacuation of the capital was carried out efficiently and without undue haste (see below). "After all," said a U.S. officer bitterly, "we've had a lot of practice...
...into many a North Korean soldier. Now it was screening the U.N. retreat in this section of the city. Michaelis had set up his command post in the dining room. He stood before his tactical maps with his division commander, Major General John Church, commanding officer of the U.S. 24th Division. There had been some concern that the Chinese-who had started to move into the city from the north and northeast that morning-might cut off the pontoon bridges over the Han which the U.N. forces would need for their retreat. General Church turned away from the maps...