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...paid homage at a hillside cemetery where lie Americans and Koreans killed in the Inchon campaign. He was host at a dinner for Marine regimental commanders, giving weatherbeaten Colonel Lewis ("Chesty") Puller of the 1st Marine Regiment the place of honor. On the Inchon waterfront Almond saw tanks loaded aboard LSTs. He flew in a Piper Cub 200 miles south to inspect the 7th Infantry Division in another staging area; he watched the doughfeet, stripped to the waist in the warm South Korean sun, maneuver through combat exercises in paddy fields and up hillsides...
...south prong-a regiment under famed Colonel Lewis ("Chesty") Puller-fought a hand-to-hand battle in Yongdung, where the main Inchon-Seoul road joins the southbound road to Suwon. Scores of bayoneted Reds perished...
Yongdung, but after five days Puller's men were still mopping...
...crowd-puller, Hopalong would have to concede nothing to the President of the U.S. Last January a crowd of New Yorkers estimated by the police at 350,000 queued up for 25 blocks to shake his hand. This month he drew the largest circus attendance (18,700) ever to pack the Chicago Stadium. For the past year, devoted millions of children and grownups have sat entranced before televised Hopalong Cassidy films...
...angle. The Mirror offered $100,000 in rewards to readers who helped solve 20 local murders, exposed a baby-adoption racket, and pursued Rita & Aly from continent to continent with the determined zest of a private eye on a fat expense account. But the tabloid's biggest circulation-puller was a lively column of double-meaning "Strictly Personal" want ads, which sniggering newsmen on other Los Angeles papers suspected Mirror staffers of writing themselves. Sample: "Man with lavender shirt that's a dilly would like to meet lady with blue dress that's a dilly. Object lavender...