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...Captive in Korea, by Philip Deane. A war correspondent's vivid ac count of 33 months of Communist imprisonment (TIME, July...
...prospect of death he learned to ac cept, and he seldom talked about it. But he could gripe about the hardships. Each echelon claimed that the men to the rear were "fat" with luxuries. The man on the line envied the man at battalion because he usually slept on a cot and lived in a tent and had three hot meals a day. Battalion thought regiment "had it made" because there the men rode around in jeeps. The soldier assigned to regiment wished he was farther back at division, where it was safer, where there were showers, Korean houseboys...
...avis avia ac avital Henrik Ibisen Titcomb...
...layoffs. While only 15% of the U.S. labor force was covered by pension systems in the '30s, today 90% are covered, and private pension plans have grown from 720 in 1930 to 14,000, covering more than 10 million workers. An estimated $12 billion in reserves has already ac cumulated in private plans, and they are growing at the rate of $2 billion a year...
...fought off the big wharf rats. When it was high, he spent it crazily, keeping his own gondola and dyeing his hair red. By fits and starts, he completed another novel, The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole. Without cease he wrote venomous letters to all his old ac quaintances demanding support. To one, in 1913, he wrote pathetically in a sudden break of tone: "I am so awfully lonely...