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...years of painstaking research has brought to light the true story of Prof. Frederick Merk and his Eastward Movement through the Great Snow...
This time the play did not click. U.N. troops gave up unimportant sectors, but held where they had to, as at Chipyong. Then General Ridgway shifted his strength eastward from Seoul. The U.N. line snapped back. Armored counterattacks relieved Chipyong, smashed north from Wonju. North of Ichon, U.N. troops bashed in the west flank of the Red drive...
...Friday the Chinese attack was spent and broken. Switching objectives eastward, the enemy sent two North Korean corps against the minor communications center of Chechon. Here, too, U.S. counterattacks, backed by artillery and air concentrations, held the Red advance to a walk...
Backed by $300,000 in Legion funds, the show opened last October in Los Angeles. It was a professional production but an obvious flop. It wheezed eastward, losing money steadily, except in such Legion strongholds as Indianapolis and Topeka. In Chicago, the Legionnaires decided not to let the deficit get any bigger. This week the show folded...
...attack sector extended some 70 miles across Korea's waist eastward from a point on the Yellow Sea below Chongju. The U.S. 2nd, 24th and 25th Divisions jumped off, alongside the R.O.K. 1st, 6th, 7th and 8th and the British 27th Brigade. The U.S. 1st Cavalry Division was held in reserve. The offensive involved about 100,000 Allied troops against about 125,000 of the enemy, mostly Chinese...