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HUGH MOFFETT, chief of the Tokyo Bureau and onetime boss of our Chicago Bureau, was back on the Eighth Army front last week after being temporarily knocked out of action by a jeep accident. He heads up the staff of Americans and Japanese who cover Korea, MacArthur's headquarters, and Japan itself. Newest member of the staff: TOM LAMBERT, former Associated Press correspondent...
...BELL, who covered the Korean war for two months and was injured in a jeep accident, is now packing for another assignment. His new job: correspondent in the Russia-shadowed Middle East...
...just the thing, and in quantity. Reo Motors Inc. delivered the last of 5,000 six-wheeled, 2½-ton trucks designed to start, stop and run under water as easily as above it. Called the Eager Beaver, the vehicle is a big brother of the submersible jeep (TIME, May 15). Its engine breathes and exhausts through vertical snorkel tubes like a latest-type submarine. Its wiring system is completely covered with a silicone-rubber compound that repels water. Tight oil seals keep water out of all engine openings...
...stood weeping forlornly in front of the city hall steps. I walked over to him and asked him his name. He said his name was Hong Kiu He, that he was eight years old and that he had no father or mother. We put young master Hong in our jeep and drove down Mapo Boulevard to the Toyoda Apartment Hotel...
...Sutherland Highlanders came out across the railroad bridge; in another quarter hour the span itself went down with the roar of eight tons of explosives. Farther to the west, at the southern end of the last remaining bridge across the Han, Mike Michaelis operated his C.P. from a jeep parked on the sandy approaches of the Han. Michaelis had just been told that his Baker Company had been cut off on the other side of the river...