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...several million U.S. televiewers during last summer's Republican National Convention, when he sparked the Georgia pro-Eisenhower delegation's dramatic and successful fight against the claims of the rival pro-Taft delegation. Tuttle had been in battle before: in World War II, he was an artillery battalion commander in the Pacific. An ex-officer who served under him remembers him as "the kind of guy who never got ruffled. He could wade through mud and keep clean, be under fire and keep cool...
Back in Tokyo, a U.N. liaison officer offered a tentative explanation. "You see," he said, "some time ago the Thai government sent up a list of some 70 American soldiers it wanted to decorate for assistance to the Thai battalion. The list was written in Thai, which is a very difficult language. It has its own alphabet, which is very squiggly. I can't say for sure, but I've got a hunch that the medal in question was supposed to be given to some other Johnson." It was-to Private Walter N. Johnson, now back...
...Army sets up three levels at which psychiatric cases are treated. First is the battalion aid station. There, the battalion surgeon (though no psychiatrist) is supposed to single out the simple cases of fatigue and treat them on the spot with a day or two of rest, plenty of good hot food, and a few words of reassurance. It helps, too, to remind a soldier that his buddies are still up there, taking it, and need him. Usually, the patient hates the idea of letting them down...
...next level is the division clearing station which has a psychiatrist. He may do no more than the battalion surgeon does, simply handling the battalion's overflow if there is a rush of cases. Or he may keep the patient a couple of days longer; his interviews are more searching, and he may have time to treat moderately severe cases with a "truth drug" and let the patient act out the battle experiences and emotions which bedevil him. Finally, there is the Eighth Army's hospital in Seoul, camouflaged under the name of a "holding company." Even there...
...soldier who hunted up his old outfit, the 15th Infantry, in which he served as a lieutenant colonel at Fort Lewis, Wash, more than twelve years ago. He stood in the chow line of B Company, 1st Battalion, then sat down on an old ammunition box with three G.I.s to eat pork chops and sauerkraut off a plastic plate. They chatted about the news-Ike freely, the enlisted men with awe at their guest-and Ike made a surprising confession: "I don't read the papers," he said. "I wait until they come out and tell...