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...uglier word. Even in the Korean war-nearly three years after President Truman's 1948 order for armed-forces equality-the classic story was of Negroes who fled from battle, then huddled around a campfire singing The Bug Out Boogie, the "official song of the [Negro] 24th Infantry Regiment...
Hedgehopping and jeeping around Korea on his third straight Christmas tour there, tireless Francis Cardinal Spellman, 64, went from outfit to outfit, held services, shook hands with troops of many faiths. Speaking to some 800 men of one regiment, the cardinal said: "American soldiers have taught me better than I could have learned in any other way what America means...
Killed in Action. Archibald John Arthur Wavell, 37, second Earl Wavell, major in the Black Watch Regiment and only son of Britain's famed Field Marshal Earl Wavell; while leading a patrol against Mau Mau terrorists; near Thika, Kenya (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...alter the horse-opera formula a little. It is dangerous to monkey with westerns . . . Every time someone has taken too great liberties . . . they have fallen flat on their face." ¶ The Command (Warner Bros.) features Guy Madison as a U.S. Army medical officer who takes command of a cavalry regiment in an emergency. Says Producer David Weisbart: "It's a kind of an offbeat thing. The doctor's approach in most of the picture is fairly intellectual rather than physical. Of course, at the end he turns out to be brave." ¶ River of No Return (20th Century...
...three days it was clear that under the rough police handling, the situation was likely to get worse instead of better. General Winterton ordered them off the streets, and put U.S. troops of the 351st Infantry Regiment to the job of restoring order. It was a belated but successful move. The Triestini cheered the Americans, and order was restored within a few hours, without any more casualties. But the toll of the three days' work stood thus: among the demonstrators, six dead, 56 wounded or injured, more than 100 arrested; for the police, no deaths, 72 wounded...