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...Cuban mountains where 42 U.S. and Canadian citizens are held captive by Fidel Castro's rebels were a party from TIME and LIFE. At first the rebels met the newsmen with leveled guns, but later they led TIME Correspondent Jay Mallin to the hostages and even gave him peg-cuffed zoot trousers to replace his mud-caked pants. Back in the city of Guantanamo, he stared into gun barrels again-this time with suspicious government soldiers behind them. Before he talked his way past the soldiers and into the U.S. naval base eight miles away, Mallin picked...
...couple of days of good Will, and the training sergeant (Myron McCormick), a man prepared for almost anything but affection, has been almost killed with kindness. Desperate, he decides to fit the round peg in a round hole. Though regulations forbid such cruel and unusual punishments, the sergeant secretly assigns Will as "P.L.O.-Permanent Latrine Orderly." "P.L.O.!" gasps Will, "Oh, thank you, sir." And he proceeds to prove himself such an orderly orderly that the captain compliments him on the condition of the latrine. Will allows that most of the credit belongs to the sergeant who-"He what!" the captain...
...your May 5 "Titans of Babel": Thank gawd, someone -mainly Elsa Maxwell and Jack Paar -had the nerve (I'd rather say '"guts") to bring that poor-white-trash Walter Winchell down a peg...
Died. Alfred Bryan, 86, lyricist, writer of about 1,000 songs (among them: Peg o' My Heart; Dardanella; Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine); in Morristown...
...vigorous Dane found time to fight in his country's anti-Nazi underground. Last summer he became a familiar figure across the U.S. as the fifth contestant to hit the jackpot on television's The $64,000 Question.* Later, at the start of one more Arctic expedition, peg-legged Peter Freuchen died of a heart attack...