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Someone relayed the warning to the Kluxers. They raced back into town and headed straight for Charlie's place. His customers bolted out rear doors and windows. Charlie himself stood stubbornly in the doorway, holding a pistol, as the hooded mob ran toward him. But he did not shoot. A Klansman wrested the weapon from him; he was beaten within an inch of his life, one of his ears was notched with a knife, and he was stuffed into the trunk of one of the cars. The mob smashed his furniture, and then shot up his "casino" with pistol...
From aboard Rear Admiral Edward Ewen's flagship with Task Force 77, in Korean waters, TIME Correspondent Jim Bell cabled...
...life rafts for the ocean, 100 Ibs. of food* to be cooked in two tiny electric ovens-and endless time for minor irritations of dreadnought flying to sap the toughest crewman. The crew's sections are pressurized like bug-bombs. To get from the nose compartment to the rear chamber a crewman has to lie full length on a little roller sled, pull himself hand over hand down an 85-ft. connecting tube...
...most advanced position on the "bowling alley." Each night, they had heard the enemy tanks, trucks and self-propelled guns approach with a roaring and purring of motors, and a babble of voices. Each night, Lummis and his platoon sergeant had calmly told the artillery and mortars in the rear to get ready, warned the platoon of U.S. Pershing tanks to stand by. Bazookamen, machine-gunners and an artillery observation post on a hill close by were alerted. Each night, as the enemy tanks started "bowling" their fire down the road, artillery and mortars would instantly open fire. Red infantrymen...
...weekly that exemplifies British journalism at somewhere near its literary and critical best and prejudiced worst is the New Statesman and Nation. It is the biggest, orneriest and-in its rear parts-the smoothest of British literary weeklies. Since 1931, the New Statesman's circulation has soared from 14,830 to 87,156 (including...