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...from sidewalk stands, others having the time of their lives propelling themselves about frozen pavements and ponds on little homemade sleds which they rode squatting on their haunches. Seoul's black-marketeers went imperturbably about their chores, blowing their whistles and semaphoring energetically with their hands whenever a jeep or oxcart hove into sight...
...night, the city lay black, empty and desolate in the moonlight. The crack of small-arms fire rang incessantly through the streets, much of it directed at jeep thieves who worked steadily every night. Seoul's Capitol Club, where,, two weeks ago a plate of potato chips had sold for $2.50, was dark and deserted. In its stead, a few blocks away, stood Seoul's last-ditch nightspot, the Consolation Club, which advertised "Fifty Beautiful Women Fifty." Inside, a dozen odd bedraggled beauties gyrated round a scarred dance floor, their swirling Korean skirts revealing singularly unattractive expanses...
...frozen stubble by the roadside, in the deathlike sleep of utter exhaustion. One R.O.K. rifleman was crawling on his hands and knees, his Garand still slung across his back, when some G.I.s with an I. and R. (Intelligence and Reconnaissance) platoon found him and packed him off in a jeep...
...flowed along smoothly. But at week's end the honeymoon ended. Eighth Army Headquarters in Korea ordered NBC's Kenneth Kantor and U.P.'s Peter Webb confined to quarters for a "gross security violation" in disclosing prematurely the death of Lieut. General Walton Walker in a jeep accident (see WAR IN ASIA). Full field censorship was ordered for all press copy, and telephones used by newsmen covering Eighth Army Headquarters were removed...
Died. Lieut. General Walton Harris Walker, 61, commander of the U.S. Eighth Army in Korea; in a jeep accident; north of Seoul (see WAR IN ASIA...