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...Division, one of its three West Point platoon leaders was killed, the other two wounded. Football Captain John Trent ('50) was killed three days after arriving in Korea; 1st Lieut. Samuel Coursen of the 1949 class was killed last October, rescuing a G.I. trapped in an enemy-held dugout, won a posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor for gallantry in action. By June Week, 267 West Pointers had become battle casualties in Korea. The last three classes had lost 41 men killed, 108 wounded, missing or captured -about one out of every six men assigned to an Army combat branch...
...Dressen unfurls a series of antic semaphore signs, punctuated by shrill whistles, designed to befuddle opponents and give Dodger hitters and runners the benefit of his 31 years' experience as player (third base with Cincinnati), coach and manager. Unlike self-effacing ex-Manager Burt Shotton, he is no dugout sphinx. If some second-guessing fan questions his strategy, he is likely to switch his attentions to the crowd...
...Four times through the heat of the day the cursing, green-clad Legionnaires, red with sweat and black with paddy mud, made their attacks. Each time the Reds withdrew. To the south, French soldiers crossed neck-deep streams under sniper fire. They put their dead and wounded in a dugout canoe and went forward. From the river, Ensign Lecorche led his LCMs and LCVPs cautiously into the jungle by way of a narrow stream. A sniper's bullet hit Lecorche's second in command, and when Communist machine guns and automatic rifles opened up from both sides, Lecorche...
...Angeles city planners were looking into the possibility of making three proposed underground garages bombproof enough to shelter 90,000 people in an attack. The county board of supervisors ordered immediate construction of an $80,000 storage room for microfilm records, and tax assessors worked out new rates for dugout-equipped homes...
During Brooklyn's first-game rally, Russ Meyer, Philly pitcher who was watching the game with a number of teammates from a box near the Boston dugout, became annoyed when a photographer insisted on taking his picture. Meyer first warned the camera man, then when another bulb went off he get in two blows before a spectator pulled...