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...epic as the Mahler.” At over 90 minutes in length, “Symphony No. 2” is an ambitious undertaking. “This is a work that is unprecedented in its scale,” says senior Glee Club President Matthew E. Growdon ’07. “[‘Symphony No. 2] is such an iconic piece that I think people who may not even typically enjoy classical music will find this to be a breathtaking performance.” Beyond the exceptional amount of time required to practice this...
...British bridge-building detachment, hit another mine, bounced up & turned over. Two groggy but otherwise uninjured Britons climbed out. A South Korean jeep coming over to inspect the double mishap struck a third mine, was blown into a tangle of steel, rubber and wire. The rest of Task Force Growdon clanked...
...Colonel Growdon, a lean, carrot-topped tanker with the cold blue eyes and competent air of a professional fighting man, rode at the van. His Pattons snorted through desolate villages, past a British Churchill tank destroyed in the defense of Seoul last year, past South Korean civilians whose tentative manseis showed their bewilderment over this latest thrust of armed forces through their countryside. There was little sign of the enemy. Occasionally a single rifle shot, or a flurry of shots, rang out. Once a jeep, hustling around a sweeping curve, hit a Russian-made wooden-boxed mine; in a thundering...
Voice from Home. In the twilight, infantrymen moving forward on tanks, armored-personnel carriers and trucks, buttoned their field jackets against the chill and dug into canned rations. Some huddled close to their vehicle's radio, listening to reports of a California basketball game. Task Force Growdon rolled on toward Munsan...
Behind one cluster of huts in a small gulch, the paratroopers had collected a bag of approximately 130 North Korean soldiers and a lone Chinese straggler. The P.W.s gaped at the drop zone, now bristling with the tanks, soldiers and guns of Task Force Growdon. Along the ridges and on the paddy fields within the paratroopers' perimeter lay some 300 dead North Korean Reds...