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Died. Sir Gerald Dodson, 82, Recorder of London (senior judge at Old Bailey criminal court) from 1937 to 1959 and one of Britain's wittiest justices; of leukemia; in London. Among his shafts: he told a defendant claiming to have a split personality, "Both of you will have to go to prison for 18 months," advised a man accused of threatening to shoot a girl because she would not go out with him, "You can't make love at the point of a revolver with any success," and informed a witness claiming that in Nigeria a man could...
Acupuncture. The V.C. took Dodson to a mountain compound called "V.C. Tower." In it were 15 South Vietnamese army prisoners. Soon Dodson was joined by another Danang marine: Corporal Walter Eckes, 20, of New York City. Eckes had been captured four days after Dodson by three Viet Cong dressed in government uniforms as he waited beside a main highway. The two marines were the only English-speaking residents in the lightly guarded camp, save for a planted Vietnamese Communist pretending to be a captured Special Forces soldier...
...station toward tougher camps, V.C. Tower proved as palatable as an enemy prison can reasonably be expected to be. Dodson and Eckes ate their meals (rice laced with snails, caterpillars or snake meat) with the camp director and their guards, played cards and sometimes sang (a favorite tune: The Animals' We Gotta Get out of This Place). Attempts were made to interrogate them, but when they refused to answer, the V.C. did not press them further. A specialist in acupuncture stuck pins in their scalps by way of a medical examination, and a political cadre dropped...
...sent to Cambodia for repatriation and release. Fearing that they were destined for North Viet Nam when they were moved out, they waited for a chance to escape. It came one suppertime as their three guards, carbines carelessly stacked against a tree, were digging into their rice bowls. Dodson yelled and leaped for the guns, came up with one while the startled Reds vanished into the bush. "I think the yell scared the V.C. more than the weapon," recalls an admiring Eckes...
Free at last, Dodson and Eckes began a four-day trek back to Danang. Once the enemy passed within three feet of them while they crouched in 6-ft.-tall elephant grass; another time a herd of buffalo chased them. For sustenance, they had the remains of a $16 bag of candy they had bought. Finally they spotted a U.S. C-130 Hercules transport landing behind a ridge and arrived at a South Vietnamese army compound at An Hoa, 20 miles south of Danang-unshaven and tangle-haired, each 30 lbs. lighter, their feet blistered. Grunted a sergeant as they...