Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MacArthur had predicted that the Reds would find it impossible to try to contain both the Inchon-Seoul invasion beachhead and the Eighth Army's southeastern perimeter. They would have to take their choice. Last week they took it. They fought like tigers for Seoul and melted away in the south. Early this week, Eighth Army spearheads racing west and north from the old perimeter were only 25 miles from a link-up with the southern arm of the Seoul enclave...
Five unearned runs in the eighth inning gave Brooklyn the decision in the first game. The Braves took a 4 to 1 lead in the nightcap, but homers by Roy Campanella and Jackie Robinson and a key double by Campanella provided the margin of victory. Carl Erskine was the winner, Vern Bickford the loser...
Across the Naktong. In the U.N. beachhead around Pusan, General Walton Walker's Eighth Army (four U.S. divisions, five South Korean divisions and a British brigade) went over to a general offensive. The aim was to break the enemy ring and link up with the U.N. forces fighting their way east from Inchon. Initial advances along the 120-mile perimeter were spotty. Nevertheless, at week's end Walker's men had established bridgeheads on the west bank of the Naktong...
Duke Poao Kahanamoku, longtime (1912-32) Olympic swimmer, celebrated his 60th birthday by paddling in the winning boat in two outrigger canoe races. Now in his eighth term as sheriff of Honolulu, the Duke also hinted that he might run for mayor on the Republican ticket this fall...
...hard-bitten West Pointer named John Hersey Michaelis, 38. Last week, the men of Colonel Michaelis' 27th combat team tangled with a capable and battle-tested foe, a 45-year-old North Korean lieutenant general named Kim Mu Chong, onetime commanding general of the Chinese Communists' famed Eighth Route Army. Kim's men met "Mike" Michaelis' men at a road junction 15 miles northwest of Taegu. General Kim looked the situation over and decided to hit young Colonel Michaelis smack in the nose...