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Corporal Robert Davis, a big, serious-faced Negro BAR man from the 24th Infantry Regiment, and his buddy, Jimmy Wright, spent most of last week in a foxhole on a hilltop near Masan. They didn't remember all of what had happened to them, but they did remember some things. Davis told TIME Correspondent Jim Bell about them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: We Didn't Ask Why | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

From windows of San Francisco hilltop buildings last week, office workers saw six rust-splotched cargo vessels towed through the bay. They were the first of 16 merchant ships which the Military Sea Transportation Service had ordered yanked from its "mothball" reserve fleet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tattered Ensign | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

...Hilltop House. Three months ago on the island of Guernsey, fellow bank clerks began to notice that gaunt, hound-eared Tom Hugo was becoming more & more abstracted about the water pipe supplying his house on a hilltop in St. Peter Port. The water pipe, which Tom considered his own, was already feeding two houses, and Tom had learned that soon the waterworks were planning to add another two houses on the line. If that were done, thought Tom, there would be scarcely a trickle left for himself and his family of eight. He plunged deep into Guernsey law, studying what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stopped Proper | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

Beau Geste Forts. The hit & run war centers around Saigon in the south. The French do little raiding in the north, where the Reds have their main base-There, at widely separated strong points, the French sit in Beau Geste-like hilltop forts waiting for surprise attacks on convoys that move along their supply line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Mosquitoes &the Sledge Hammer | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...showmanship in the old tradition was also making headway. With the drive-in theater season about to begin, the Hilltop Drive-In near Perryville, Mo. planned to lure the customers by installing the added attraction of two monkeys in a cage. In Champaign, 111., the Twin City Drive-In prepared to put in another piece of bait: a 300-lb. bear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Onward & Upward | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

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