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Said Harry Bridges: "That will save us a lot of headaches, being free from that lousy outfit." The C.I.O. felt the same way about Harry...
...plodding about the country seeking someone to whom you can give a 'no-strike pledge.' I am sure that you will pardon me when I suggest that the Mineworkers are not yet ready for you to sell them down the river. Restrict your pledges to your own outfit. We do our own no-striking...
...spoiling attack" (TIME, Aug. 21) and hammered again at the approaches to Masan, the main gateway to Pusan. But this time, no overly expensive spoiling attack was needed to save Pusan. The 5th Regimental Combat Team and the 24th Regiment (the 25th Division's crack Negro outfit) struggled valiantly for upland vantage points called Battle Mountain and Sobuk Ridge. Half a dozen times the heights changed hands. At one stage the doughfeet were described as hanging on "by their toenails"-but they did hang...
...month of almost continuous action, the U.S. 27th ("Wolfhound") Regiment of the 25th Infantry Division had never retreated unless it was ordered by higher command, and most of the professionals on the Korean front thought they knew the reason why: the 2yth Regiment had something no other outfit had. That something was its commander, a lean, pleasantly hard-bitten West Pointer named John Hersey Michaelis, 38. Last week, the men of Colonel Michaelis' 27th combat team tangled with a capable and battle-tested foe, a 45-year-old North Korean lieutenant general named Kim Mu Chong, onetime commanding general...
...Flies in the Coffee. That night, the enemy did not come back in force. By the time another morning dawned, the whole outfit was feeling pretty good. Lieut. Lummis had shaved. Looking almost civilized, he tried to get Captain Merchant to shave, too. Merchant refused. "I'll shave when they get us out of this stinking place," he growled. But even Merchant had relaxed a little. Said he: "This morning I brushed my teeth and I've stopped drinking coffee with flies...