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Communist Voice: The members of the International Scientific Commission interrogate Floyd Berlin O'Neal, 2nd lieutenant, USAFR...
...2ND LIEUT. EDWARD G. IZBICKY of Chicago : "Interrogated 8½ hours a day for 60 days and four hours a day for 54 days. On May 25, 1953, he was sentenced to solitary confinement for 100 years-or until he accepted the germ warfare charges. He was then thrown into a hole 5 ft. long, 4 ft. wide and 4 ft. high, where he was left for a week without food or water. He never wrote a confession...
...sound British critic has called 28-year-old Roger Nimier "one of the most brilliant writers in France," but there must be a lot of shocked Frenchmen who wish he had never learned to write. At 20, in 1945, Nimier joined the French 2nd Hussar Regiment and wound up in Germany at war's end. Five years later, in The Blue Hussar, he described French troops in action and occupation with a bite and candor that made most U.S. war novelists seem like self-pitying recruits. Now, even in a tasteless and jazzed-up translation, it is a novel...
...Beat. Eventually, Marian toured as an entertainer for ENSA, the British version of the USO, and then switched to the USO itself. She landed in Normandy soon after the first troops, and a few months later in Belgium met Dixieland Cornettist Jimmy McPartland, a private in the 2nd Division. They were married in Aachen, and two years later had their own Dixieland band in Chicago (TIME...
...West Point, Richard Shea doggedly set one Academy record after another on the track field: the indoor mile (4:10), and both the indoor and outdoor twomile. Turning up in Korea in the closing weeks of the fighting. 2nd Lieut. Shea led a platoon of Able Company, 17th Infantry Regiment on Pork Chop Hill. One night the company was heavily hit by a Chinese attack, but stood its ground. Lieut. Shea led two counterattacks that night and three the next day. His own company was cut up; he himself got a shrapnel wound in the neck. But doggedly refusing evacuation...