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Oxcarts & Airdrops. The 7th's men, although equipped with parkas and other arctic garb, were suffering in the coldest weather anywhere along the Allied front. For a while their supply road to the east-coast port of Iwon was blocked by snowdrifts ten or twelve feet deep. They resorted to oxcarts and airdrops. Said Major General David Barr, cheerfully: "There is nothing to worry about." This week the supply road was reopened...
...families of soldiers were horrified by reports that some units were still fighting and shivering in summer clothes. A few angry Congressmen threatened to demand an investigation. Needled by the uproar, the Pentagon cabled General MacArthur for information. The general answered that all troops fighting in the northernmost (and coldest) areas were winterized; that although some pilfering of winter clothing (by Koreans from Army warehouses) had occurred, the losses had not affected frontline supply...
Summarized TIME Correspondent James Moffett: "Winter, when you don't have a home and fireside, is an atrocity no matter how many clothes you wear." In North Korea, U.S. soldiers faced one of the coldest winter campaigns in U.S. military history...
...making of a literary reputation, as in most other enterprises, it pays to advertise. Many writers (e.g., Bernard Shaw, William Saroyan) do much of the advertising themselves: each time their talents burst into flower they let off such chesty bugle notes of self-satisfaction that only the coldest, boldest critic dares to play deaf. But there are other good writers who bloom in silence, leaving it to the critics to sniff them out, though it may take years to place them in their proper niches...
...stocked it with such things as French handbags, fine furs, lingerie and jewelry, built up such prestige that Garfinckel's soon became the most fashionable store in the capital. A vegetarian and health faddist, he kept his office desk on an open-air terrace except in coldest winter. He built his business to a gross of $3.2 million without ever running display advertisements in a newspaper or magazine...