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...four days Dwight Eisenhower stayed close to his cliffside room in the Hotel Thayer at West Point, gazing out on an ice-choked Hudson River and the snow-covered hills. Outside his third-floor "presidential" suite, an MP stood guard. Downstairs in the basement grill, several hundred college girls and their cadet dates devoured cheeseburgers and malted milks while a juke box thumped out Goodnight, Irene...
When they reached the floor of the valley, they stopped to eat their breakfast rations. Almost instantly they were under heavy mortar and machine-gun fire. An MP sergeant driving a jeep along the road was hit in the back; his vehicle careened off the road into a bank. Davis and Wright dashed across a green paddy field. When they were safely out of range of the enemy's fire, they looked up at the crag they had just left; it was now occupied by a Communist machine-gun crew...
Soldiers also joined us, told the story of Seoul's fall. "Their tanks were too many," said one, "and their guns too big. We had nothing to fight them with. What can you do with rifles?" "Where are the American airplanes?" asked an MP sergeant-major bitterly...
...Mirror that it must have been a gangland beating in retaliation for Mortimer's occasional stories on underworld affairs. The Hearstpapers' lurid stories described his assailants as "paid mobsters," who had done the job with brass knuckles and a pistol. (Playwright Sidney (Detective Story) Kingsley, a wartime MP who was also in the washroom, said the beating was done with fists, couldn't recollect...
...wife home. He was greeted by the blast of a .45, died instantly with a bullet through his heart. When (as she later testified) Yvette "heard his blood" oozing from his chest, she ran to the home of a neighbor, screaming "I shot him!" Soon afterward an Air Force MP found Andy's body in the Madsen living room close by a note written by Yvette: "I know my husband will beat me up. My only defense is to shoot him, the heel, the rat, the low creature...