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Some small part of the credit for Turkish success in Korea may be due to U.S. bakers, who have learned to make a heavy bread that suits their gallant allies-using wheat and rice flour and olive oil. A U.S. colonel who visited Korea brought back to Washington last week the text of a classic message sent by the Turks to a U.S. supply depot: "Enemy attacked, we attacked. Send us more bread...
...Throughout the Korean campaign," said MacArthur, "this same writer has repeatedly written off the Army as lost, and by his biased and inaccurate reporting held up to universal contempt the courage and fighting qualities of the gallant American soldier and the leadership of his officers . . . The identical attack of which you speak was carried in another periodical six weeks ago [the New York Herald Tribune], and was used by the Soviet as a weapon against the United States in the forum of the United Nations and was widely carried in the Soviet press...
...Hungnam evacuation was unhurried. On Christmas Eve, Rear Admiral E. C. Ewen radioed from the carrier Philippine Sea that "the last remnants of the gallant forces of Northeast Korea" had been taken off. The Navy announced that the number evacuated from Hungnam was 215,000, including the First Marine Division, the Army's Third and Seventh Divisions, many South Korean troops and 100,000 civilians...
When he hove into view-a gallant, smiling, if somewhat aging figure, sitting his white, 16-year-old steed, Topper, with the assurance born of a hundred B westerns-pandemonium was certain to reign. The screams, the whistles, the volleys of exploding caps which racket up whenever he rides through the ranks of his wriggling idolaters would probably outdo anything ever heard during the games of ancient Rome...
...Video Theater (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS-TV). Ruth Hussey in Gallant Lady...