Word: counterattacks
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When Hedda Hopper's bombshell burst, the lawyers who had drawn the agreement for Hearst promptly confirmed it-and so did Marion Davies. The news brought a quick and bold counterattack from the Hearst estate's special administrators, Son Randolph Apperson Hearst and Lawyer Henry MacKay Jr.: "This so-called agreement . . . was never executed and for this and many other reasons has no more effect than if it never existed." Snapped Filmland Lawyer Gregson Bautzer, who had helped set up the agreement last year for Hearst: "The document will speak for itself when filed...
Battle for the Towns. When Italy elected new local governments in 1946, the Communist Party captured control of about 2,000 towns and cities, chiefly in the industrial north. Anti-Communist forces, notably the Roman Catholic Church, began to organize a counterattack. At the same time, the U.S. launched the Marshall Plan, which helped ravaged Italy back on the road to recovery. By 1948, when Italians went to the polls to elect a new Parliament, the Red tide had been turned back; in that historic election, the Communists lost heavily to Italy's free parties, led by Premier Alcide...
...strong-went into action as a unit for the first time in Korea last week. It drove six miles into North Korea, captured a 1,500-ft. hill south of Chorwon, pulled back in orderly fashion through rain and mud when the Communists staged a fanatic counterattack. Said Major Dick Medland of Toronto: "We had excellent killing...
...Sergeant John A. Pittman, 22, Company C, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Division, a farmer's son from backwoods Talulla, Miss. On November 26, near Hamhung, Sergeant Pittman volunteered to lead his squad in a counterattack against an enemy-held hill. The Chinese poured down mortar fire, burp guns began their deadly whinny. Pittman went down with a mortar-fragment wound, got up, pushed doggedly forward. A grenade landed in the midst of his squad.* Hero Pittman threw himself upon the missile, smothered the blast with his body. He left a hospital to get his decoration. ¶1st Lieut. Carl...
Harry Truman waited 48 hours to counterattack. His platform was a dinner for 1,200 delegates to a civil-defense conference at Washington's Hotel Statler. Unlike General MacArthur, he had the microphones and cameras of the nation's major radio & television networks before...