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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Infantry, the ist Cavalry, the 1st Marine-plus the 5th RCT (regimental combat team) from Hawaii, plus unidentified reinforcements which went into the line last week. The South Koreans had five divisions more on the line. Admiral Forrest Sherman, Chief of Naval Operations, revealed that thousands of marines were en route from the U.S. The first ground troops from other United Nations were also en route...
...sixth anniversary of the liberation of Paris last week, the air over the French capital was filled with the whoosh of jet fighters. At an airfield, loudspeakers barked out flight orders in a mixture of English and French: "Castor Bleu, scramble . . . Cobra Jaune, en readiness dans quatre minutes" For three days, 450 planes of the Dutch, Belgian, British and French air forces, supplemented by U.S. B-29s, carried out Western Union's first air maneuvers. Exulted a French colonel: "Today there is actually a European air force . . . Maybe we're just a little ahead of the politicians...
...Roger Le Morvan, 26-year-old Parisian electrician, who had had former Record Holder Georges Michel as his trainer, had refreshed himself en route with glucose and champagne. Tiring in the last minutes, he could not match Abd el Rahim's sprint, climbed onto the beach just ten minutes after the Egyptian...
Debonair Columnist Joe Alsop flew in to Tokyo with five pieces of luggage en route to Korea, was finally convinced that he needed only a single musette bag. Randolph Churchill, representing the London Daily Telegraph, caused an uproar in Tokyo's Press Club by demanding that he be allowed to sign chits for drinks before he had plunked down his membership deposit. (He was put out.) Almost every newcomer expected to be taken out for one last binge in Tokyo before leaving for the front...
...en Rose (Louis Armstrong; Decca). Satchmo goes continental with a gravel-voiced version of the Edith Piaf café favorite...