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...catcher-one of the young game's best. He was in Pittsburgh as manager of the Pirates when Coxey's Army marched on Washington in 1894; he was manager of Milwaukee in the Western League when Dewey took Manila in 1898. And when MacArthur landed at Inchon in 1950, Mr. Mack was still at the ballpark. He was 87, and he had been manager of the Philadelphia Athletics for half a century...
...rickety rail system with 45 locomotives, 1,696 pieces of rolling stock, enough rails, switches and crossties for 1,811 miles of track. The U.N. has also built 2,138 miles of Korean highway, 525 bridges. Though Rhee asks $38.6 million for electricity, U.N. generating barges at Pusan and Inchon pump unmetered quantities of electricity into Korean homes and factories, at least double the army's consumption...
...Gloucester operation in March 1944 that Smith, by then a greying colonel, got his first taste of combat and a Bronze Star. In his second operation, bloody Peleliu, he won the Legion of Merit for the smooth landing of three Marine assault teams. From Peleliu to Okinawa and from Inchon to Changjin reservoir, he won many honors (including the Distinguished Service Medal and the Army's Distinguished Service Cross) and advanced rapidly in the esteem of the corps...
...Smith's fighting days, both in World War II and in Korea, were with the 1st Division. At the Inchon landing in Korea, he was in command of the 1st-and led it through some of its finest actions. He seems to be the very antithesis of the roistering, hell-for-leather marine of song and fable. Quiet, bookish, religious (Christian Scientist), he never raises his voice, is famous for writing earnest citations for his men and modestly evading praise of his own heroism...
...NNSC compound, shouting. "Poles and Czechs, go home!" They pushed down the fence and stoned the U.S. guards; in one of their trucks, guards found six machine guns. The worst fighting broke out at Wolmi Island, the wooded, humpbacked pile where the U.S. marines staged their amphibious assault on Inchon in 1950. Screaming Koreans tried to rush the causeway that joins the island to the mainland, and others stormed ashore from junks. One Korean got shot and two were wounded while trying to land at Wolmi. The G.I.s barricaded the causeway with trucks and jeeps. Reported TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast...