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Career: Byroade is a Regular Army colonel, on loan to the State Department. During World War II, he built air bases in India for the vital "Hump" route and 6-29 bases in China. General Marshall made Byroade his right-hand man during the ill-fated Chinese truce negotiations of 1945-46. He was temporary brigadier general at 32. Marshall brought Byroade to State, where he became chief of the German Affairs Bureau...
...back on such words as restless, troubled, intense, obsessed. But Greene is not the kind of man who makes a vivid first impression. Tall (6 ft. 3 in.), frail and lanky, he dresses like a careless Oxford undergraduate, walks with a combination roll and lope that emphasizes a slight hump between his shoulders. Physically, he is an easy man to forget (one old acquaintance remembers him simply as "badly made"), except for the face with its wrinkled skin that looks as if it had shaken loose from the flesh, and the startled, startlingly washed-out blue eyes, slightly bulging...
Cautious Combat. Typical of the sporadic fighting was the action on Hill 166, about four miles south of Hoengsong. A characterless little hump extending from the Wonju-Hoengsong road into barren stony mountains whose crevices gleam with snow, Hill 166 is distinguished only by a thin ruff of slender trees along the western slope, a high-tension wire standard on its crest, and a cluster of high Korean grave mounds on its southern slope...
Hard-driving Texan Slick was not merely talking Texas-style. Last week, he reported that in 1950 his all-freight airline finally got over the hump, had a $506,608 profit after taxes. It was the first year Slick had been out of the red since he and his fellow pilots from the Air Transport Command started the shoestring line in 1946 (TIME, Jan. 28, 1946). Moreover, they had hauled almost twice as much freight as the year before-45,318,000 ton-miles, 26% of all U.S. air cargo and far more than Slick's closest rival, huge...
...there is a graphic account of Newscaster Thomas' leg-breaking fall from a horse, and of his litter-borne passage over the Hump to India...