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...Edner's death followed Harry Truman's 1947 decision to help stem Red aggression in Greece. Smith and Williams died in the airlift that foiled the 1948-49 Berlin blockade. Harding and Goodwin were the first Americans killed in Korea after North Koreans crossed the 38th parallel in 1950. Medendorp and Lynn died in 1954 when Red China loosed a thunderous artillery barrage against Nationalist-held Quemoy island. Anderson's U-2 reconnaissance plane was shot down over Cuba during the 1962 missile crisis. Davis died when his truck hit a mine 18 miles from Saigon...
COLUMBELLA by Phyllis A. Whitney. 306 pages. Doubleday. $4.95. Author Whitney, a Staten Island, N.Y., grandmother of 62, fashions her 38th book about Jessica Abbott, an inhibited schoolteacher who goes to the Virgin Islands in a search for adventure. There, she is hired as a tutor and companion for 14-year-old Leila Drew, promptly falls in love with the child's father, Kingdon, and earns the undying hatred of the mother, Catherine. Somebody has to die, and so Catherine gets clouted in the face with a sea shell and knocked down a treacherous embankment. After...
...38TH ANNUAL PRESENTATION OF THE ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES (ABC, 10 p.m. on). Hollywood's annual rites of spring are hosted again this year by Honest Bob Hope. Oscars will be presented by almost every movie personality anyone has ever heard...
...skippered a crew of seven Harvard yachtsmen to a fifth place finish in the two-day McMillan Cup Regatta at Annapolis, Md., over the weekend. The Naval Academy invited ten colleges, including six from the Ivy League, to race its fleet of 44-foot yawls in the Regatta's 38th running...
...time, the U.S. had got militant, too, and Harry Truman sent U.S. troops in defense of South Korea, rallying the U.N. to join the fight. As the fighting raged up and down the peninsula, it became clear that the eventual result was to be a military standoff near the 38th parallel. That was not good enough for Syngman Rhee, who publicly and furiously argued that unless all of Korea was reclaimed, the U.S. would be doomed to perpetual piecemeal containment of Communism. When the treaty of Panmunjom was signed, on July 27, 1953, the old fighter burst into tears...