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When he decided to leave the building, there was no waiting car. His pilot, Lieut. Colonel Anthony Story, asked a civilian behind the wheel of a battered jeep: Would he give General MacArthur a ride? Said the driver, glumly: "Well, if it's an order ..." Finally, the colonel flagged a CAA pickup truck; MacArthur and the pilot bumped...
Although Osborne, who covered some of World War II in Europe, did not go to the Far East to cover the Korean war, he did spend some time at the front. On one occasion he managed to get a ride back to headquarters in a jeep. Jimmy Cannon, of the New York Post, and another correspondent also asked for a lift. Cannon, wise to the fact that a jeep's only comfortable seat is the front one, announced that it should go to the oldest man present. Whereupon, he gave his age (41) and dove for the seat. Under...
When dawn broke, as Chatham told the story, all sorts of things happened. The Russian hustled into a Red army uniform, set forth with the Congressman to a Soviet car pool, and got a jeep. Having passed through the Iron Curtain, they drove on & on, mile after mile into Soviet Germany. Brushing past guards, explaining that his companion was an important representative of a satellite nation, the Russian took the Congressman to a newly built airfield, where he proudly pointed out a line of swept-wing jet planes of late design. Then he drove on to an armored infantry compound...
...fired ahead and to its flanks as it rolled. One of Baker's gunners kept score on its hits in a little notebook: "9:05 p.m.-two more; two more; seven more; 9:35 p.m.-30 Reds, two carts; two more; two mule carts full of Reds; one jeep; six more...
...five-starred Chevrolet sedan, trailed by four other staff cars, 40 jeep-loads of newsmen and lesser brass, MacArthur rolled over the dusty road to Seoul. Along the capital's Mapo Boulevard, where the rubble of siege and street fighting had been hastily swept up, the general took the salute of South Korean troopers, the polite applause of white-garbed civilians...