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...right not only to repair existing airfields in North Korea, but to construct new ones during the armistice period. Their argument: "wanton bombing" by the U.N. had deprived them of adequate air defenses. In spite of two roaring stoves in the conference tent, the air was chilly with frigid language and stale with monotonous repetition. Admiral Joy said that U.N. forces were willing to be inspected, and asked a simple question of the Communists: "What do you plan to hide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEASE-FIRE: Item 3 | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...pupil and Actor Hyde White's hypocritical headmaster seem fuller than before, and are skillfully played. Most to its credit, the film gets up close to a superb piece of acting by Michael Redgrave, who makes the schoolmaster's inner suffering as vivid as his aging stoop, frigid correctness and nasal drone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 12, 1951 | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

Neither rain, nor cold, nor snow could keep the football team from its appointed round of practice yesterday. Despite the slippery ground and the frigid air, Coach Lloyd Jordan sent the squad through a brisk review of blocking and tackling fundamentals, followed by offensive defensive work against the freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weather Fails to Halt-Varsity; '55 Runs Tiger Plays | 11/2/1951 | See Source »

...Horseshoe. The same was true of Wonju, in the frigid uplands of central Korea. For 16 days, the U.S. 2nd Division (in which a French and a Dutch battalion had been incorporated) had held a horseshoe salient just south of the town, from which the allied force could rake it with artillery. Early last week, Eighth Army Headquarters announced that the salient was being given up in order to shorten and straighten the allied line. The withdrawal was carried out under artillery and air protection which prevented enemy interference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: No Settling Down | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

What Do You Expect? In Akron, Ohio last week Hildy proved that she could thaw her audience (paying a top of $3.50) even in the frigid atmosphere of an armory. Flitting from microphone to piano in front of her band, combing her upswept hairdo with both hands (an act which once caused a West Coast wag to nickname her "Miss Armpits"), Hildy got them all right into the act as usual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Deep or Not | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

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