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...Seoul, the bodies of 35 men, women & children were found on the boulder-strewn side of Songbok hill where they had been shot down by Communist police. Mayor K. B. Lee of Seoul said that the dead had been relatives of members of the national police force who escaped in the early stages of the invasion. Other Seoul witnesses described how 2,000 young men, said to be members of an anti-Communist organization, had been lined up along the banks of the Han River and machine-gunned...
...most famed statues in the world is the Winged Victory. It was pieced together in 1863 from some 300 fragments found in a boulder-strewn valley on the Aegean island of Samothrace. But the head and arms were missing; ever since, archaeologists have dreamed of finding more of the missing bits. This summer a team of diggers under the supervision of N.Y.U.'s Professor Karl Lehmann uncovered a right hand without fingers, and later, one finger that fitted the hand. Louvre Curator Jean Charbonneaux, on the spot when the find was made, announced last week that...
...recent years the most lucrative telephone racket has been to uncover the wires leading to the phone and touch a quarter to both wires simultaneously. One ex-freshman admitted making a free call to Boulder City, Nevada, by making contact with the quarter 25 times in rapid succession...
...feet, as he was trying to dislodge a big rock, a cave-in buried him up to the waist in loose sand and gravel. When he tried to wriggle out he discovered that he was trapped; his right leg was doubled beneath him and pinned immovably by the boulder...
Bauer met Remington in April, 1944, when entering the Navy Oriental Language School at Boulder, Colorado. Later both men served as Russian language experts for the Office of Naval Intelligence in Washington...