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Fire from the Heights. He enlisted in the Army again. Last summer he was sent to Korea, and was assigned to a heavy-mortar outfit, Company L of the 38th Infantry Regiment. One bitter cold day last January, some men of Company L were trapped in the open near Ponggil-li by heavy machine-gun and mortar fire from a hill above. Corporal Ronald Rosser did not hesitate. With only his carbine and one white phosphorous grenade, he sprinted 100 yards up the steep slope and leaped astride an enemy trench on the heights...
...tour was the idea of Assistant Professor Iva Dee Hiatt, 32. She reflected that a lot of Smith girls went sightseeing in Europe every summer, and that among them were enough members of the college's various singing groups to make a first-class concert outfit. She lined up London and the Continent two summers ago: such organizations as the University of Lausanne, the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs agreed to obtain halls, print programs. The girls were to pay their own way, sing without fee. Twenty-four singers made the trip last...
...left after he had come to the conclusion that Counterattack had "changed into an opinion and editorial sheet-short on facts and long on opinion"-and that Red Channels, even though it had "spotlighted" a problem, resulted in "lots of people getting kicked around." Bierly set up a research outfit of his own. His first big job: a research assignment from Columbia Pictures which resulted in the clearing of one of its stars who had been named in Counterattack as a Communist sympathizer...
Once in a rare while a vanity writer does hit a small piece of jackpot. Vantage, another Manhattan outfit, sees great possibilities in McDill McCown Gassman's Daddy Was an Undertaker, which is to be published next week. So far, reports Vantage, it has advance orders for 5,000 copies. Vantage has ordered a first printing of 10,000, talks happily of a potential market for Mrs. Gassman's memoirs of maybe 25,000. Among Vantage's promotional plans for the book is an autographing party for Author Gassman in the Jennings Funeral Home, in Rome...
Three bands, including that of Blue Barron, are signed up for this year's Class Week, committeeman Ira M. Peterman '52 announced last night. Betty Clarke (above) will be the vocalist featured with Barron's outfit...