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...private Jimmy is one of the main preoccupations of Gene Fowler's story. Schnozzola is not as spectacular a performance as Fowler's life on John Barrymore (Good Night, Sweet Prince). But it pours a foaming pitcherful of legend and anecdote, and Durante's numberless followers should be left reasonably happy...
...Lattre's men drove into the hills north of Haiphong. A TIME correspondent accompanying the French reported: "The task force followed a narrow Viet Minh track where the jungle crowds in from all sides. The men crossed numberless ravines on thin bamboo strands. On a better road a mile to the south, a column with mules transporting French 755 provided artillery support, while the French light cruiser Duguay-Tronin also zeroed in on Viet Minh positions. On the second day, Viet Minh opened machine-gun fire, but when Moroccan troops began closing in, they fled leaving behind no dead...
Thousands of dwellings had been destroyed in Seoul, Taegu, Taejon and in numberless villages. Korea's industry had been shattered. Steel and aluminum plants had been crippled or destroyed. At Hungnam, the largest fertilizer plant in Korea had been heavily damaged. Inchon's locomotive works and railway repair shop lay in ruins. Ninety per cent of South Korea's railway bridges and the majority of her electric substations had been smashed...
When the rescuers arrived, they found only twelve men still able to fight. The unit had been cut off for 38 hours, had lost all of its officers during the numberless Red attacks...
...thank thee, O God, for the numberless things...