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...closest races of the 1950 campaign, both sides were working up to an all-out effort. For Democrats and Republicans alike, Illinois was a critical battlefront. Republicans were counting on Candidate Dirksen as a top bet to pick up one of the seven seats they needed to upset Democratic control of the Senate. Next to beating Taft in Ohio, Truman Democrats were most deeply interested in saving the political hide of Majority Leader Scott Lucas...
...dramatic United Nations telecasts, TV has contented itself with scooping the newsreel theaters. In addition to Tele-News newsreel clips, CBS-TV supplies a pointer and a relief map of Korea so that Douglas Edwards can conduct televiewers on a nightly Cook's tour of the battlefront. John Cameron Swayze on NBC-TV's Camel News Caravan explains battle positions on his map with the aid of animated planes, tanks and troops...
John Osborne, TIME & LIFE senior correspondent in the Pacific, last week cabled this report from the Korean battlefront...
...senses the bonds which tie Lake Success to the Korean battlefront. The blue and white U.N. flag flies from General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters in Tokyo's Dai Ichi building; it flies also, with Korean and U.S. flags, in embattled South Korea. MacArthur carries on a cordial correspondence with U.N.'s Secretary General Trygve Lie, has periodic talks with Lie's personal representative, Colonel Alfred G. Katzin of South Africa, and on his last flying visit to Korea, called on U.N.'s Korean Commission in Pusan (which maintains telephone contact with Lake Success...
While the Red air force was out of sight, U.S. airmen concentrated on bombing North Korean communications. Despite bad flying weather, Superforts raided Seoul's railroad marshaling yards, interrupting traffic from the north to the southern battlefront, and blasted industrial targets near the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. From a secret U.S. airbase built in four days, F80 Shooting Star jets attacked tanks and transports around Taejon; the highway northeast of Taejon was lined with burning vehicles. Other U.S. planes attacked Communist engineers who were trying to repair destroyed bridges across the Kum River...