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...characters, such as cockneys, hard-boiled moppets (one proudly reported that he had not only spotted spring's first cuckoo, but shot it with his air rifle) and the Giles "family." This includes beefy, solid Dad and Mum, a scrawny pig-tailed schoolgirl, two older homely sisters, a horrid, runty little boy and stumpy, grumpy Grandma who smells of camphorated oil and dotes on "bulls' eyes" (a peppermint candy...
...Horrid Word. When the first U.S. Sherman tanks (mounting 76-mm. guns) arrived, they were smashed by the harder-hitting 858 of the enemy's T-34 tanks. Thereafter the U.S. avoided tank-to-tank slugging until heavier Pershings, with 90-mm. guns, began to reach Korea at the end of July. The first damaging inroads on enemy armor were made by Allied airplanes and by 3.5-in. bazookas, capable of penetrating eleven inches of armor, the first of which were dispatched to Korea by emergency air shipment from the U.S. It was clear that if the Kum River...
...last week, TIME-LIFE Correspondent James Bell headed back for Inchon to file his story. With him in a jeep were John Davies of the Newark News and Lachie McDonald of the London Daily Mail. As Bell later reported, "We were all quite happy to have survived the rather horrid night and three hours of North Korean banzai charges. The driver proceeded along the road to Inchon very carefully. One of us remarked how pleasant it was to be riding with a careful driver after the numerous 'army cowboys' we had traveled with the past few weeks." Then...
...lobby afterwards, owlish Alexander Volinine, Pavlova's partner for 13 years, muttered: "Verry myzterious." A pallid Parisian hostess shuddered: "It's like looking into the souls of horrid people -the ones one walks away from." Wrote Combat's critic: "Martha, by her continuous internal tension, as in a trance, is able to communicate all the scale of human sentiments." Le Monde found that 'those naked feet lifted, brandished menacingly ... end by being an obsession." Martha Graham took this French coolness in her stride. "You see," she said, "it's a universal problem. Some like...
...else to concern them besides the Indians. In New England, especially, the Devil made trouble. "Exhibiting himself ordinarily as a small black man," says that great theological gossip, Cotton Mather, the fiend "decoyed a fearful knot of proud, froward, ignorant, envious, and malicious creatures to lift themselves in his horrid service...