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Last week, as nearly 9,000 Rotarians gathered in Seattle for the 45th annual convention of the world's largest service club, a back or two was certainly slapped. Total strangers called each other by their first names without let or hindrance. But the names were called in accents that ranged from the flat twang of the Western plains through Teutonic gutterals and mellifluous Urdu to the cool precision of Oxford English. And they weren't all Tom and Harry. There were Karls and Kims and Bongs and Phyas and Mohammed Alis and Yoshinoris and Joaquins and Chaunceys...
...your story on the 45th Infantry Division (TIME, May 3). During my military service, I guess I griped as much as any other GI. But the 14 months in Korea that I wore the Thunderbird patch on my left sleeve were proud ones . . . Thanks for your tribute to a topnotch outfit...
Those rough, tough '"Thunderbirds" of the 45th Division may have "participated in more combat days than any three Marine divisions" but oh, brother, what a difference there can be between combat days...
...look at the record: the 45th's casualty loss of 20,993 in 511 days averages 41 men per combat day, whereas the Fifth Marine Division, which was in action only 25 days in World War II, paid the horrible price of 8,935 casualties on Iwo Jima, or 357 men per combat...
...doubleheader with the New York Giants: five walloping home runs, a major-league record. ¶The World Champion New York Yankees, currently stumbling around in the second division of the American League, got an Army reinforcement. Lieut. Bobby Brown, 29, a front-line medico for nine months with the 45th Infantry Division in Korea, announced he was available for Yankee third-base duty until July 1, when he expects to quit baseball for full-time doctoring in the San Francisco Hospital. EURJ In New York, Tommy ("Hurricane") Jackson, the two-fisted flailer who made a splash as a heavyweight recently...