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...Davis and Jimmy Wright had been told where to dig their foxhole, and where and when to fire their weapons. Their task was to protect a supply road between Masan and Chindong. Their captain had placed them on a rocky crag 1,000 feet above the road, on the road's right flank. They stayed there a long time...
...spot, and many a mountain stream and rock has its legend, worthy of the poet's pen or painter's pencil . . . And in looking over the uncultivated scene, the mind may travel far into futurity. Where the wolf roams, the plow shall glisten; on the grey crag shall rise temple and tower...
Mail Order. In Baltimore, Crag Wold decided to make $1,000,000, sat down to write 1,000,000 letters, asked recipients to "please send me one dollar...
...nation's lesser known press moguls, cagey, crag-faced O. J. Elder, 63, has peddled vicarious thrills for 43 years. For 38 of those years, he served Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden. Since 1941, when he led a successful minority-stockholder revolt against his old boss, O.J. (as his employes respectfully call him) has been president of the Macfadden-less Macfadden Publications, content to hide anonymously behind the circulation-catching Macfadden name. Last week Elder launched a slick addition to his string of eight magazines (True Story, Photoplay, etc.). He had designed it for the most determinedly vicarious thrill-sharers...
...other day, what wars and revolts had failed to bring about was produced by the black market: the village went up the crag. The daughters of Dr. Faure, impoverished by war and inflation, had turned the castle into a hotel, stayed on to manage it. Among their first customers were bashful, leathernecked Pierre Barrière, a railroad worker, and his pert, white-satined bride, Jane Cantarel. Their horny-handed wedding guests, stimulated by wine and altitude, made the bishops' terrace ring with the raucous Les Montagnards (The Mountain People...