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...either be a general or a dead colonel," cracked G.I.s last summer about the hottest regimental commander among U.N. forces in Korea. At Taegu's bloody "bowling alley," John Hersey Michaelis (rhymes with regale us), better known as "Mike," and his redoubtable 27th Infantry (Wolfhound) Regiment, now better known as "The Fire Brigade," fought bravely and brilliantly to help hold the Pusan perimeter. Sinewy Mike Michaelis won a battlefield promotion to full colonel, and the D.S.C. for "extraordinary heroism" under fire...
...TIME News Quiz, which appears for the 27th time in this issue, came into being 16 years ago because a young Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota had the revolutionary idea that college men should "know what goes on in the world...
...salute, splashed through puddles to inspect the guard, maneuvered a radio-controlled tank by a switchboard placed in his hand, and watched the U.S. Army show off its newest weapons. Then he hurried back to Washington to keep a date: a family dinner to celebrate daughter Margaret's 27th birthday...
Half a dozen graduates of Washington's now defunct Gunston Hall school for girls got together last week to celebrate the 27th birthday of their friend and classmate Margaret Truman. The night before, Margaret had come down from Manhattan to Washington for the occasion. A late riser by preference, she roused herself for an "early" (8:40) breakfast with her father at Blair House, lunched with her mother before going off to Best Friend Jane Lingo's house to gossip, giggle and eat her favorite chocolate cake with her old school chums...
...Foreign Office . . . telegrams to me; source of financial supplies; reason for maintaining the attitude that I had the right to protect American property ... I was only allowed to return to the consulate after I claimed exhaustion had brought on a heart attack-my pulse being 140 per minute. "On 27th December I was called to the Central Police Office where [an] expulsion order was read to me only once in the following terms: [I was] guilty of espionage crimes against the Chinese and Russian people ... I, together with my family and staff, must leave China within five days. Only sufficient...