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Clark criticized Major Douglas D. Pirnie '43, Commandant of the 356th Field Artillery Battalion, 94th Infantry Division, Organized Reserve Corps, for suggesting in a recruiting speech in Emerson D that his unit would not be called up in the near future and that students joining the unit would postpone their military service...
Donald Fox: Eliot; Chairman, Inter-House Social Affairs Committee; Lt. Col., R.O.T.C. Battalion; House Committee; Regienal Chairman and National Board member, S.D.A.; P.B.H.; Crimson...
...December, Colonel Paul Freeman, 43, silver-haired commander of the 23rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, covered the Eighth Army's retreat. At Wonju in January, the 23rd hung on. At Chipyong last week, Freeman and his men held down the hot corner again. With them was a tough French battalion commanded by Lieut. Colonel Ralph Monclar, a Foreign Legion veteran who had given up his general's rank to take his men to Korea...
Despite Archer's puzzling mumbo jumbo, the idea of enlistment excites Langrish, begins to seem a wonderful means of escape from his dull life. He misses the enlistment date, but while taking a walk one day, stumbles on to the battalion camp and is forced into service against his will. His complaints are brushed off. He sees Archer from time to time, but the captain, now a major and soon a colonel, seems not to recognize...
...Search Is ... Still bewildered though he is, Langrish nevertheless feels a new sense of well-being in the battalion, and his World War II experience quickly wins him a promotion. His health returns; he can even enjoy cigarettes again. But when he tries to escape for a short visit to his mother, he is thrown into jail. Escaping again, he kills a military policeman, gets home to find his mother dead, the house a shambles. When Archer comes to get him, Langrish shoots him, but Archer forgives him, dies with Langrish's promise to "come through" because the enemy...