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Equally methodical was Specialist Fourth Class Nolan King, 20, a gangling, sleepy-voiced Georgian in the best Sergeant York tradition. In one day, he killed 14 Communists, captured 21, and seized seven weapons. "I walked off by myself up this little creek," he explained. "There was five of them up there by this little straw hooch they had made. They was just sittin' there coolin' it. I shot four of them. Then I went on up the creek some more and three of them jumped up. They looked like they were going to shoot...
...Library's riverfront neighbors--Harvard's Georgian Houses, the Monastery of St. Mary and St. John, and a line of six-story brick apartments--are friendlier. But just outside the yards' northwest corner, Baird Atomic Inc. has a block of three brick manufacturing buildings: another visual headache...
...consideration. Among the top contenders: Tregaron, the late Joseph E. Davies' 7½-acre wooded estate (the setting for the ballroom-party scene in the movie Advise and Consent); Dumbarton Oaks, a Georgetown estate where the conference that hatched the United Nations was held; Octagon House, a Georgian-style Washington landmark on New York Avenue; Hitt House, the headquarters of the Pan American Health Organization; and Bonnie Brae, a barnlike Tudor house of fieldstone and brick...
Tientsin to Adano. To Pierson's neo-Georgian-style quadrangle, Hersey will bring a rich and varied experience. Born in Tientsin, the son of Christian missionaries, he spoke Chinese fluently before he knew a word of English. When he was ten, his family returned to the U.S., and Hersey attended Hotchkiss and Yale ('36). After a postgraduate year at Cambridge, he came back to be secretary to Sinclair Lewis, then war correspondent for TIME and LIFE. His third book, A Bell for Adano, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1945 and was followed by the celebrated account...
...Moscow and Kiev, after an evening of Brahms and Mozart, several of the musicians adjourned to the youth cafés to sit in on jam sessions with the local hipsters. In Tbilisi, the orchestra was treated to a sumptuous banquet and serenaded by Georgian folk singers. The only sour note of the tour was sounded privately by the musicians, who rightfully questioned Szell's generally lightweight selection of American works, including two insipidities by Composers William Grant Still and Herbert Elwell, a native of Cleveland...