Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...avoided Washington's cocktail party set. Most of his time was spent in attempts to interest the State Department in the Provisional Government and Korean independence. Even after World War II began, the U.S. remained stonily indifferent. When Rhee mailed his credentials to the State Department shortly after Pearl Harbor, he was asked to come and take them away again...
...Hatless Corpse. That evening, sharp as ever in a dark suit, pearl-grey fedora and canary-yellow gloves, Drury drove his new black Cadillac home. At 6:45 he backed into the garage. Two men stepped out of the darkness and faced the car. With a shotgun and a .45, they punched four holes in the windshield. The first slugs knocked Drury's hat to the seat; the rest plowed into his head and body. An hour later Bill Drury was dead-without a hat on. Upstairs on his desk was a telephone message: the Kefauver committee had called...
Tank Terror. Like the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, the North Koreans attacked early on a Sunday morning (June 25), and struck south in a six-pronged drive, with a heavy force of armor aimed at Seoul. U.S. intelligence had reported that North Korean troops were massed on the border, but the enemy had achieved surprise by a prior series of false alarms in the form of border raids, so that no one paid enough attention this time. This time it was not a raid...
When the elder Underwood died, his son Horace Horton stepped easily into his shoes as president of Chosen. He and his wife Ethel lived and reared their four sons in the big comfortable Underwood house on a hill overlooking their college. When Pearl Harbor came, the Underwoods were interned by the Japanese and later repatriated to the U.S. Young Hedge, the eldest of their sons, served with the U.S. Navy. After the war he joined his parents at Chosen college. One day early last year two Korean Communists dropped by at the Underwood house. Mrs. Underwood, who was entertaining some...
...Lakes, N.J. He wrote 50-odd novels bristling with danger and hairbreadth escapes; a dozen books of verse; plays; short stories; a biography of Poet Rupert Brooke; several volumes of Shakespeare criticism; the scenarios for The Perils of Pauline, the silent climax-a-week movie serial which made Heroine Pearl White rich and famous...