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...27th (Wolf hound) Infantry Regiment stopped a Communist tank drive on Taegu a month ago, the New York Herald Tribune's pert, fearless Correspondent Marguerite Higgins cabled an eyewitness story of the four-hour battle. Last week, in a letter to the Trib, the regiment's hard-bitten Colo nel J. H. ("Mike") Michaelis complained that she had left out something important. He supplied...
Special Delivery. In West Orange, N.J., Postman Daniel Fineran, stung by a wasp while delivering the morning mail, asked a housewife for first aid, was bitten...
...Regiment of the 25th Infantry Division had never retreated unless it was ordered by higher command, and most of the professionals on the Korean front thought they knew the reason why: the 2yth Regiment had something no other outfit had. That something was its commander, a lean, pleasantly hard-bitten West Pointer named John Hersey Michaelis, 38. Last week, the men of Colonel Michaelis' 27th combat team tangled with a capable and battle-tested foe, a 45-year-old North Korean lieutenant general named Kim Mu Chong, onetime commanding general of the Chinese Communists' famed Eighth Route Army...
Best Friend. In New Haven County, Conn., Ensign Stanley W. Henderson bailed out of a faltering Navy plane, landed unhurt in a tree, climbed down and was bitten in both legs by a waiting...
...Caged has a tendency to spell out all emotions-especially sentiment-in large, block capital letters. But John Cromwell's direction has some unblinkingly realistic moments, and Caged ends on a stringent and unexpected note: paroled at last, Eleanor joins up with a vice ring and the hard-bitten warden gloomily reserves a cell for her early return...