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...Correspondent Philip Deane's I Was a Captive in Korea. In an even voice, he told of 33 months as a prisoner, exposed the shockingly calculated inhumanity of his captors. Deane's book and S. L. A. Marshall's The River and the Gauntlet, the story of the U.S. Eighth Army's defeat in North Korea, would make sober Christmas presents, but they are two books of 1953 that thoughtful Americans can still profit from. Not so distressing, and highly informative as well as entertaining, was Admiral Leslie Stevens' Russian Assignment, a critically urbane look...
Parked on Clark. One of the best is Louis Morton's The Fall of the Philippines. Historian Morton, 39, chief of the Pacific section of the Army's historical department, is no Samuel Eliot Morison or S. L. A. Marshall (The River and the Gauntlet), but he writes with the quiet authority of a man who spent 1943-45 in the South Pacific and the Philippines, spent a lot of further time digging through Army files, private letters and diaries, and personally interviewing survivors. His book builds to a melancholy climax, from the bombing of Clark Field through...
Just a few hours before, their son, Corporal Edward S. Dickenson, 23, with the loose-jointed amble of a mountain man, had passed through a gauntlet of curious eyes at Panmunjom, to be handed over to the U.N. command. Taken prisoner Nov. 5. 1950, he was the first of 23 American P.W.s who, having previously refused repatriation, had changed his mind. Sitting down at a table with India's Lieut. Colonel Ujjal Singh and U.S. Marine Major Edward Mackel, Dickenson ostentatiously drew from his pocket two packs of cigarettes-Lucky Strikes and a Chinese brand. He offered a Lucky...
...Committee decided upon an informal dance for Saturday night, Oct. 24, during the Dartmouth weekend. Picking from such names as "The Chlorophyll Cotillion" and the "'57 Gauntlet Run," the freshmen finally decided upon the title "'57th Heaven...
...Baharestan Square, things were different. The occasional voter had to run a gauntlet of signs proclaiming: "Only Traitors Vote for Non-Dissolution." Election officials dozed, read magazines, swapped stories. At day's end, to no one's surprise, the count in Teheran district stood: for the dissolution (and Mossadegh), 166,550; against, 116. Mossadegh hailed the vote, of course, as a great vindication of democracy...