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...occasion seemed important enough to merit another MacArthur visit to the front. On a bitterly cold but sunny morning, three hours after his divisions jumped off, MacArthur's Constellation, the SCAP, landed on Sinanju's bumpy airfield. Welcomed by a cluster of his top brass, the general climbed into a jeep and pulled the hood of his pile-lined parka over his head. In the back seat rode the Eighth Army's Lieut. General Walton Walker...
...little cluster of Harvardmen (22 this term) banded together in the Harvard Art Association, the drawing possibilities were all pretty dreary: mostly just cubes and cones, bowls of fruit and other still lifes. Why not draw the human figure from nude models, like art students anywhere? They made it a petition and last week the administration said yes. For the first time in Harvard's 314-year history (provided a faculty member is present to chaperone) undergraduates will draw from live models, draped or undraped...
When the two men got together to say goodbye at the airstrip, MacArthur was graciousness itself once more. He stood at attention while the President pinned a fourth oakleaf cluster to the Distinguished Service Medal on MacArthur's open-necked shirt. MacArthur shook hands firmly, smiled and said, "Goodbye, sir. Happy landings. It's been a real honor to talk to you." The Independence took off for Hawaii at 11 a.m. The general was on his way to Tokyo five minutes later...
...early last month, Lou Sebille was leading his squadron of Mustangs in a strike over Hamchang, Korea. A young captain from Texas was flying wing for him. Near Hamchang, the captain and Lou Sebille made a strafing pass at a cluster of Communist vehicles on the road below...
...Communist shelling of the U.S. airfield at Taejon (see above) was forcing increasing reliance on bases in Japan, but the U.S. was also beginning to build emergency airstrips in South Korea. One such airstrip, already in operation last week, consisted of a tiny cluster of rundown concrete buildings, hastily made over into an operations office and control tower, two rickety hangars and a long, grassy runway...