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Painter, shmainter! He's a (gasp) Tory too Finest Hour don't rate with the tale...
...Last Gasp. In the south, Walker on Aug. 7 mounted the first sustained U.S. counterattack of the war, to drive the enemy back from his disquieting proximity to Pusan. General Craig's marines joined this "spoiling attack," but Walker pulled them out after they had helped to upset the enemy. He had to make shift with what troops were already at hand, shuttling them from one crisis to another. The next reserves due to arrive-the bulk of the 1st Marine Division from the U.S. and the 7th Infantry from Japan-were earmarked for Operation Chromite, the invasion...
...great retreat had slowed down and stopped. Under constant and growing harassment from the air, it looked as though the North Koreans were running out of tanks and ammunition. Walker said something about their "last gasp." But the appearance of Communist weakness was illusory. The invaders were saving up for the big push, in the first two weeks of September-which really was their last gasp...
Frank Leahy's Notre Dame eleven which escaped with a 14 to 7 last gasp victory over North Carolina Saturday, was in its customary first place spot in the first Associated Press weekly poll yesterday, but not by its usual overwhelming vote...
During the last few weeks various correspondents and military spokesmen have tabbed a half-dozen or so North Korean drives ... as the Reds' "last gasp," "final major push" ... It doesn't add up. The Reds have a lot of planes. They haven't used them . . . Why have they held...