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Shooting by Norm Shepard's team during the first half set a new low in accuracy. The Crimson made only five baskets from the floor, and three of these were easy lay-up shots by Captain Ed Smith. As the half ended the losers had made a pitiful 13 percent...
Air Force Nurse Mary Wilfong showed signs of weeping. "Taking care of the wounded isn't a pleasant job always," she said, "but it never hit me like this. Those kids were so helpless and so pitiful."
There were 300,000 people in Pyongyang (an equal number had gone north with the Communists in October). When it became known last week that the Allies would not defend the city, refugees began streaming south. To prevent them from blocking troop movements on the roads, the Allies barred two...
Enormous crowds began jamming into the monkey house to stare at the stricken monster. Within a week, almost a quarter of a million people passed by his cage. At first it seemed a morbid and pitiful performance. But gradually it became apparent that Bushman was delighted by the shuffling, elbowing...
No Time to Talk. Evening Moscow's "brigade" of reporters singled out the Express, on Flower Boulevard, for the brunt of their criticism. "The projection hall is in a very pitiful state," they wrote. "The walls are peeling and dirty, the chairs are broken. The customers have to sit...