Word: eighth
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Apart from physical danger, war reporting was getting more & more difficult. General Douglas MacArthur still refused to impose military censorship (TIME, July 24), but last week the U.S. Eighth Army in Korea threatened correspondents with "disciplinary action" if dispatches gave "aid and comfort" to the enemy. Added the directive: "Criticism of command decisions or of the conduct of Allied soldiers on the battlefield will not be tolerated...
After rumblings from correspondents, Lieut. Colonel R. L. Thompson, the Eighth Army's press officer, amended the order to read: "Unwarranted criticism . . ." But correspondents were still unhappy. Echoing the dog in Lewis Carroll's "The Mouse's Tale" ("Til be judge, I'll be jury,' said cunning old Fury . . ."), Colonel Thompson had added that the Army would be "sole judge and jury" of what criticism was and was not warranted...
...Eighth Congress of the Baptist World Alliance, and probably the biggest ever held. Each day the "messengers" (they are not called delegates, have no power to speak for their churches) packed the big (10,000 seats) Cleveland Public Auditorium for a busy program of speeches, resolutions, pageants and hymns. So popular were the talks that once, when the convention newspaper carried a notice that extra copies would be available, a queue lined up for them at 6:30 the next morning...
Into the Sea? Two weeks before the North Koreans struck, tough, shark-mouthed Walton Walker said to his command: "Your mission and mine is to maintain the splendid Eighth Army in the state of readiness which will assure success in any role we may be called on to assume. In this I am confident we shall not fail...
Even so, his July play had been nothing to wreathe the faces of the Davis Cup committee in smiles. Ted's heavy-artillery attack was misfiring, and he found himself being put out of a succession of regional tournaments by such opponents as eighth-ranking Herbie Flam and 21st-ranking Tony Trabert. Said Ted at the start of the National Clay Court Championship in Chicago last week: "To play good tactical tennis, you have to be in perfect condition. I'm not, and I don't know whether I will...