Word: reed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...groups primarily affected by the Administration membership list ruling were the Y.P.'s and the John Reed Club. The former complied and submitted the necessary lists, but the latter group went "underground" and ceased to exist officially...
...Take That Back." Private Reed was shipped to Japan with the 40th Infantry Division, and he began to joke about being shipped to Korea, much as he had joked about being drafted. But in January 1952, when his division was sent to Korea, Reed realized that he was in for something more than a newspaper assignment. As a combat correspondent, he not only quickly found himself under fire, but for a month got cut off entirely from the Post. The censors, who had no precedent to go by, stopped his mailed columns, and the Army took a dim view...
...Korea columns carried the authentic flavor of the combat infantryman's lonely world of fear and waiting: "Aside from the patrols and the small attacks, it's a constant vigil . . . Time drags when you sit and wait for something to happen." Reed's account of an Easter sermon, preached at a clearing leveled by a bulldozer the day before: "The chaplain . . . said that men, in these uncertain times, are seeking security . . . He said there is no better security than belief in the story he had just finished telling ... I left the service feeling that, in a time...
...Call Me Son." After four months covering front-line units, Reed, now a sergeant, was transferred to a rear echelon supervising Army combat correspondents. In August, with his two-year term of duty up, he was shipped to the U.S. From San Francisco, he phoned City Editor Johnston. "Well, son, how the hell are you?" asked Johnston. "Listen," said cocky, battle-tested Reporter Reed, "don't call...
Last week, back in Houston, ex-Soldier Reed found himself a town celebrity. He was asked to appear on radio and TV programs, lecture at women's clubs, while he took a rest. But after a few days he dropped in to the Post to ask City Editor Johnston for something to do. Johnston set him to covering the draft boards again. Grinned 23-year-old Reporter Reed: "I don't seem to be getting anywhere...