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TIME Correspondent Frank Gibney was in Pusan last week when the first troops of the U.S. 1st Marine Division, confident and well equipped, arrived from the U.S. and moved out to the front. Later, Gibney went up to join a regiment of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division, which had been fighting steadily for 31 days. What he saw, a platoon-eye view of the war, gave a very different picture from sweeping communiques of how the Americans were doing in Korea. Gibney cabled...
...Berlin, Washington, Dallas and Tokyo all contributed to this issue's cover story on Walton Walker, commanding general of the Far East Command's Eighth Army. The story's opening account of one of the general's trips to the Korean front came from Frank Gibney, TIME'S Tokyo bureau chief, who went along for the ride...
...tough ride," Gibney cabled. "The general's expert jeep driver treated the jeep as if it were a plane while we rocketed along the narrow, crumbling, dusty roads. Taking that jeep ride was the best way of finding out how tireless and driving a man Walker is. There were no wasted seconds-even for lunch. The general did suggest that I take time out to eat with the drivers while he was conferring at a regimental command post, but I was too interested in the conference to accept his offer...
...present, Gibney is momentarily bedded down in Tokyo with grippe and dysentery, two ailments familiar to Far Eastern correspondents...
...others: Ray Richards of I.N.S., Corporal Ernie Peeler of Stars and Stripes, both killed in action (TIME, July 24); Frank Gibney of TIME & LIFE, Burton Crane of the New York Times, and Jack James of U.P., wounded...