Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Songs by Sinatra. TIME Correspondent James Bell made four trips along the Taegu-Kyongju road. He cabled: "When the enemy struck his sledgehammer blows in the northeast, both the fighting and the resultant confusion were like the return of a horrible nightmare. It was like nothing that has happened since the opening days...
Accompanying a KMAG officer who was trying to restore some cohesion, Bell found South Korean stragglers who claimed they were "messengers" but had no messages; South Korean officers who could not find their division commander; and, finally, the division commander, who was on a hilltop watching Allied airplanes strafe the enemy, instead of trying to regroup his men. The South Korean driver of a regimental radio jeep had his set tuned to a recording of Crooner Frank Sinatra (broadcast by the U.S. armed forces network) because, he explained, there could be no messages, because his regiment had disappeared...
Three Times Through. Bell cabled: "Lieut. Colonel Gines Perez of San Antonio, Texas, fought the war out here from 1942 to 1945. A mild-looking man with glasses who, like so many other such commanders, doesn't look like a military man, Colonel Perez had his battalion strung out on the road from Kwangju to Angang. For a while, South Korean troops were on his right. Then suddenly, one night, they weren't. The battalion was surrounded and had to fight its way out. That's routine enough. What was unusual about the weird action was that...
...months before: "It is sort of fun to be 50 and feel you are going to defend the title again. I won it in the twenties [A Farewell to Arms] and defended it in the thirties (To Have and Have Not] and the forties [For Whom the Bell Tolls], and I don't mind at all defending it in the fifties...
...much the same story next day. The Federals, who had fallen back and dug in near Gaines's Mill, cut down every Confederate attack. Lee pondered the situation, finally went in search of a tall, rawboned, 31-year-old Kentuckian named John Bell Hood. Demanded Lee: Could General Hood and his Texas brigade do the job of breaking the Federal lines? Said Hood: "I will...