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...read in Correspondent Frank Gibney's first-person account from the battlefront, the war in Korea was only four days old when he became TIME Inc.'s first casualty. He is now out of the hospital and back on the job. You may recall his timely appraisal of the Korean situation in our June 5 issue. Before he became head of our Tokyo bureau, Gibney had served four years in the U.S. Navy, where he learned Japanese and was aide and flag lieutenant to Admiral Robert M. Griffin in Japan...
...I.L.N. earned its greatest reputation by fast, accurate coverage of the border skirmishes and full-dress wars in which the expanding British Empire was almost constantly involved. War artists represented the I.L.N.-and the empire-on every battlefront from India to the Transvaal...
...town for players, plucked his first trombonist (a woman) from a Salvation Army band. He rehearsed his neophytes twelve hours a day; the first concert (in the local Methodist mission) was a success. That year he gave 230 concerts; the next he endeared himself to the British with a battlefront tour at Christmas, playing while the Battle of the Bulge was raging a few miles away...
...were in Shanghai. The General agreed to a next morning departure. Birns and Rowan boarded a civilian cargo plane at Shanghai, but a ground haze delayed the landing at Nanking until 10 a.m., almost three hours after General Chou's transport plane was to leave for the Suchow battlefront. Gruin spent the interval conning the Chinese airmen into waiting for the overdue plane. At length, the TIME-LIFE team got off for Suchow and their report back to Gruin not only established the fact that the Communists were winning the battle but also helped decide the immediate future...
...weeks ago, when wily Communist General Chen Yi seized the Honan capital city of Kaifeng, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek flew to the battlefront to direct the recapture of the city (TIME, July 5). But as Nationalist columns closed in, Chen evacuated Kaifeng and plunged southward through government territory toward the swift Yangtze River...