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Across the River. Earlier, a reconnaissance battalion of a regimental combat team made a daring dash 22 miles behind Communist lines, captured valuable documents, maps and Russian-made equipment. The U.S. force came within a hair's breadth of annihilation by heavy enemy fire when Red artillery shells killed or wounded the crews of its two lead tanks and the rest of the column piled up behind them. But Private Ray Roberts, a 19-year-old ex-bulldozer operator who had started the reconnaissance as a bazooka man, took over the controls of the lead tank (although...
Warshaw takes the speed and racket of modern city life as matters of course, believes that a painter needs to get the same dash and smash onto his canvases. His test of a picture: "Can a spectator, after driving 30-miles-an-hour up a neon-lit, billboard-splattered street, stop off at a gallery and see a painting without slowing down visually?" He hopes that, with his own work, the answer will always...
Action v. Words. John Foster Dulles said that Russians "know that everybody wants peace, and if they can pose as the lovers of peace, then perhaps they can risk war." But it was gently gruff George Marshall who sprinkled a dash of salty reserve on Benton's enthusiasm. "Something has to be done," he said, "and it has to be more dynamic . . . We have had a military conquest, but it is not lasting. There is a confusion of the mind. How you correct that I do not know unless it is by some such method as this...
...Dash for Shelter. At 7, Harry Truman was aboard a five-car special train, heading for Columbia and the University of Missouri's commencement exercises. By 9:30, in cap & gown, he was marching in the faculty parade around the University stadium. By 10 he was beginning his 18 minute speech, in which he warned against cutting European aid. He raced through the speech; it began to rain just as he started it, and a cloudburst sent his audience of 17,000 stampeding for shelter just as he finished...
Everybody agreed that the bird showed military dash throughout. After perching at an approximate parade rest itself for five minutes ("about 20 minutes," insisted Hughes later), it took off as the corps was dismissed, made a brief dive-bombing run on a bald-headed civilian in the grandstand, and then flapped away...