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...flurry of shots, rang out. Once a jeep, hustling around a sweeping curve, hit a Russian-made wooden-boxed mine; in a thundering flash the jeep sailed into a roadside paddy field. One man was led, stumbling, from the wreckage; another was laid face down on a litter and quietly covered with a blanket. At 6:30 p.m., Task Force Growdon linked up with the paratroopers. "Boy," said the men of the 187th, "we're sure glad...
Last week Yale announced the end of all these breezy customs. A university committee (nine facultyites, six undergraduates) decided it was all too much strain: too many fights, too many girls dumped in the Housatonic, too many truckloads (twelve in 1949) of beer cans and other litter to be hauled away afterward. One special cause of complaint: Yalemen and their dates had taken to filling water pistols with beer, discharging them at elderly ladies on Derby street corners...
...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...
...knows she has an egg." When he visited a friend in Kentucky, a startled observer reported: "In the first twenty-four hours the poet was seen to rescue several toads from wells into which they had stumbled; to feed from a bottle the runt pig of a large litter; to rub noses with a calf in a field; to whisper something into the wagging ear of a burro from Texas-imported for his express companionship; to feed countless chickens and ducks; and to ignore only men . . ." Summing up his American experience, Stephens said: "If anyone gets fresh with...
...which had winter clothing, were fighting last week in 20-below-zero cold. The cold brought tears which froze on the men's faces. After a U.S. attack near the Manchurian border, medical officers reported as many casualties from cold as from enemy action. Only quick work by litter teams prevented those wounded by gunfire from freezing to death...