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Pretty Well Read. After the interrogations, Dean lived in virtual isolation with several Korean-speaking guards. Once in a while he had a visit from two Communist correspondents, Alan Winnington of the London Daily Worker and Wilfred Burchett of Paris' L'Humanite. At first, not allowed to read, he passed the time by doing mathematical problems in his head. One favorite exercise: squaring all the numbers from i to 1,000. Later he was given Communist books-the works of Lenin and other Red scriptures-to read. "I'm pretty well read on Communism," said Dean wryly...
...with a dilemma. They have found that Communist correspondents, whom they see every day at Panmunjom, are often a better source of truce-talk news than the sparse briefings by U.N.'s own information officers. From such men as Alan Winnington of the London Daily Worker and Wilfred Burchett of Paris' pro-Communist Ce Soir, U.N. correspondents have extracted Red reaction to U.N. proposals even before the U.N. negotiators announced that the proposals had been made. And high-ranking U.N. officers have frequently asked correspondents what the Red reaction seemed to be. Many U.N. newsmen disliked fraternizing with...
Playing the Game. The first big story to come from the Reds was Burchett's account of his interview with General Dean (TIME, Dec. 31). The next came when the Associated Press found that its Pulitzer Prizewinning Photographer Frank Noel, 52, was in a North Korean prison camp. Eager for an exclusive, A.P.'s Bob Schutz lugged a camera to Panmunjom and asked the Communist correspondents to deliver it to Noel. A few days later, A.P. had a set of P.W. pictures taken by Noel. Though they had been censored by the Communists, they were the first pictures...
...weight went down from 190 Ibs. to 130. "My arms-were sticks, my legs were sticks," he said. "I looked like Mahatma Gandhi." He had twelve cartridges left for his pistol, and he kept them clean and shiny. He was determined, he told Communist Burchett, to use eleven bullets to kill Reds, the last on himself...
...Burchett said that although Dean had been very sick, he was in good health last week and had regained all but ten pounds of his normal weight. He was living in a two-room underground apartment at the prison camp, wearing a neat pin-stripe suit, playing Korean chess with his guard. General Dean still did not know that he had been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the first to be won in Korea...