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...Communists wanted Taegu. The flat, dirty city was the provisional capital of the South Korean government; it was the main Allied supply base and communications hub for the central front; it had a valuable airfield from which U.S. tactical airplanes were blasting the Reds; it also blocked what the Communists considered the main approach to the port of Pusan. The North Koreans last week made frenzied efforts to take Taegu. They failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Definitely Saved | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

...Communists surely knew it. They were massing on the southern and western fronts for two major drives: one straight at Pusan, the other to take Taegu, the communications hub of the northern half of the U.N. defense line. The Reds had already established several small bridgeheads east of the Naktong River near Taegu, and the city itself was under enemy artillery fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle for a Beachhead | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

Stable Door. In Maiden, Mass., police decided to keep a close eye on Charles Fauci's car after he reported the theft, within a month, of two hub caps, gas, the cap to the gas tank, more gas, a new gas tank cap, four door handles, the windshield, both headlights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 16, 1950 | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

Maybe it's because the time is ripe in mid-season; maybe it's because Dartmouth Indians suddenly become gay when they leave their Hanover reservation and travel to the Hub, whatever it is, things always seem to pop in Cambridge on the weekend of the Dartmouth game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Weekend: Invitation to Buffoonery | 10/22/1949 | See Source »

...four against Bowdoin today. They combine at the number two doubles position. At the singles five and six slots are Jack Frey and Jay Robb. Dave Key of ice fame joins Robb in the third doubles combination. In spite of a comparatively late starting season and the usually poor Hub tennis weather, these four have rounded into shape...

Author: By R. JOHNSON Shortlidge, | Title: Bowdoin Tennis Team Due For Pounding from Varsity | 5/6/1949 | See Source »

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