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Fire from the Heights. He enlisted in the Army again. Last summer he was sent to Korea, and was assigned to a heavy-mortar outfit, Company L of the 38th Infantry Regiment. One bitter cold day last January, some men of Company L were trapped in the open near Ponggil-li by heavy machine-gun and mortar fire from a hill above. Corporal Ronald Rosser did not hesitate. With only his carbine and one white phosphorous grenade, he sprinted 100 yards up the steep slope and leaped astride an enemy trench on the heights...
...Scotland's Moira Paterson, the British Women's Amateur golf championship, over England's Frances Stephens, one up on the 38th hole after being five down on the 23rd; at Troon, Scotland. Miss Paterson is the first Scotswoman to win the British title since...
...have left your great cities to come here," he said. "We are happy that the men from America are with us-and we hope that they will stay." All over South Korea a newly proud people were anxiously hoping the same thing. Remembering the Russians north of the 38th parallel, another Korean said, half apologetically: "We know that many American leaders think Korea should be given up. We have trusted and hoped in you. Will you fail...
About four weeks after he had sent that cable, Gibney, injured when a bridge was blown up by the South Koreans, was writing a different kind of dispatch from Korea. He told of the North Koreans' smash across the 38th parallel, and described the pell-mell retreat of civilians from the capital...
...major internal crisis threatened Korea, but the U.N. hardly knew how to intervene. Above the 38th parallel, Communists were sharpening their pencils. Roughshod old Syngman Rhee was a propaganda gift...